In my case, the required platform is Solaris. OK, I know that ActiveState provide builds for this platform, but the underlying perl build on my target machine is not one that AS supplied, but one that came with Solaris, hence PPM is not an option. The siteperl directories exist, but are empty.

I only mentioned Win32 because of some difficulties I have been having at home.

(...beware of dependencies)
I couldn't agree more. Just because module A is pure perl, if it calls module B which needs XS, this is no good. Ideally, I am looking for something that can build a prerequisite requirements tree, flagging any modules that require an XS build.

In reply to Re: Re: The quest for pure perl by rinceWind
in thread The quest for pure perl by rinceWind

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