Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: ginger.cc.utexas.edu: grouse owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:03:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Hoffman To: Augustus Saunders cc: Cygwin Subject: Re: I suggest creation of a list of package maintainers In-Reply-To: <20010826043608.23277.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Augustus Saunders wrote: > 3) Kind of an extension of 2, but I'd also like to see > a list of Perl modules known to work ootb with Cygwin. > I mean, Perl and PostgresSQL come standard now, and > yet the Postgres DBI module does not. Oh, well it > should work ootb, right? Nope, you gotta go get > postgres source to build it, and I haven't figured out > if I can use the Win32 prebuilts (I doubt it's going > to work, but let me know if it's worked for you...). CPAN Testers is _supposed_ to do this... I usually find it's easier to just to download the modules from CPAN and make test. YMMV. Anyway, check CPAN Testers out if you're interested: http://testers.cpan.org/ -- Michael Hoffman The University of Texas at Austin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/