Hi Respect Monks,
 
My goal is to use Perl as much as possible for my application development(on Windows platform), which involve Oracle database as part of my tech stack.
 
However, I found:
---With the installation of Oracle 10g installed on my Windows  XP, by default, it installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 on my machine. It sets two environment variables PATH, and PERL5LIB.
---For my Perl programming, I have two options:
   a. Using Perl 5.8.3 coming with the Oracle DB installation.
   b. Using the newest Perl 5.8.8.

   However, option B gave me a lot of trouble.
   1. In order to user Perl 5.8.8, I have manipulate PATH and PERL5LIB environment variables before launch the script.
   2. The worst thing is that the IIS server (for running CGI programs) only gets path and perl5lib info from system.
   3. BTW, as I know, if I change the PATH and PERL5LIB setting done by Oracle 10g installation, Oracle DB's HTTP server won't work and possible other troubles.
 
So, as of now, it seems my only option is to use Perl 5.8.3 for my Perl programming and development. Please let me know if you have better idea/insight.
 
I installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 on my machine, as I don't want to messy up Oracle DB's Perl installation. I am fine with not able to have GUI PPM4 in Perl 5.8.3 and have to use command line PPM.
 
But, my biggest problem is that I found the repositories configured with Perl 5.8.3 installation are not working. The followings are the locations of the two repositories:
1 ActiveState PPM2 Repository
Location: http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.pl?urn:/PPMServer
2 ActiveState Package Repository
Location: http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.plex?urn:/PPM/Server/SQL
 
For both of them, the system gave error of "Warning: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)"
 
It would be really appreciated if I could get help on:
(1) If I would like to use Perl 5.8.8 for my Perl development, how can I solve the issue of IIS reading path and library of Perl 5.8.3 installed by Oracle DB?
(2) How can I make PPM of Perl 5.8.3 by connecting to a correct repository? I can use the repository locations used by PPM4 (used by Perl 5.8.8), which are located at:
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.8/819/
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.8/820/package.xml
 
Thanks a lot.
PerlSearcher

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