X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: activestate perl on cygwin Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:56:38 -0600 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <1168444611.45a50cc3d20dc@easymail-old.hol.gr> <31b7d2790701102041o602b777ek17113dbe84d799c5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790701102041o602b777ek17113dbe84d799c5@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >> > checked activestate. Then I needed some modules, DBD:Orcale to be >> exact. >> Maybe you should have looked for DBD::Oracle instead? :-) > According to ActiveState's website > (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.8/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html) > > > DBD::Oracle Oracle no longer provides the Oracle client libraries for Apparently somebody didn't get the joke/prod that I was doing based on the fact that the OP misspelled Oracle as Orcale and mistyped the "::" as ":"... And damn I included a smiley... >> Aside from the grammatical errors my point still stands. AFAIK ppm, >> ActiveState's module installer, only works in ActiveState and I don't >> believe that ActiveState works on Linux, Unix and Macs, whereas the > - - - - - cut - - - - - - - > > It looks like PPM3 works with all the OSes that ActiveState releases > perl for which include Windows, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, and HP-UX. Apparently ActiveState has been ported to more platforms than I was aware of. Still, authors on CPAN, in general, don't know or think about PPM (AFAICT) and just do things in what they consider the "standard" way (perl -MCPAN). I guess my point can be boiled down to "Why fight the trend?". YMMV That plus that annual subscription fee is way out of my $0.00 software budget! ;-) > I am not so sure about PPM2. It only has instructions for Windows. > > Again, we have moved way out of the realm of relevance to cygwin at > this point. Yes but it is fun isn't it? -- Andrew DeFaria Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected the expected. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/