On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sisyphus wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, "doc"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using PPM to download and install on XP Pro the Win32 pm and it
> > comes up with a path error ERROR: 500 Cannot write to
> > 'C:\DOCUME~1\regbuild\LOCALS~1\Temp\ppm-
> > ZriaEM/Win32-x86-multi-thread-5.8/Win32-0.34.tgz': No such file or
> > directory
>
> What command did you run ? ActivePerl already has Win32 installed -
> though, on perl 5.8 (build 822) it's only version 0.3. Perl 5.10
> (ActiveState build1002) ships with Win32-0.34.
Note that there are only 2 functional changes since the 0.30 release:
the memory leak in Win32::GetOSVersion() fix, and the change that
makes sure the drive letter returned by Win32::GetLongPathName() is
always uppercase.
All other changes are for different compiler support, Cygwin related,
or improvements to the test suite:
| Revision history for the Perl extension Win32.
|
| 0.35 [2008-03-31]
| Integrate changes from bleadperl:
| - Silence Borland compiler warning (Steve Hay)
| - Fix memory leak in Win32::GetOSVersion (Vincent Pit)
| - Test Win32::GetCurrentThreadId on cygwin (Reini Urban, Steve Hay)
|
| 0.34 [2007-11-21]
| - Document "WinVista" return value for Win32::GetOSName()
| (Steve Hay).
|
| 0.33 [2007-11-12]
| - Update version to 0.33 for Perl 5.10 release
| - Add $^O test in Makefile.PL for CPAN Testers
| - Use Win32::GetLastError() instead of $^E in t/Names.t for
| cygwin compatibility (Jerry D. Hedden).
|
| 0.32 [2007-09-20]
| - Additional #define's for older versions of VC++ (Dmitry Karasik).
| - Win32::DomainName() doesn't return anything when the Workstation
| service isn't running. Set $^E and adapt t/Names.t accordingly
| (Steve Hay & Jerry D. Hedden).
| - Fix t/Names.t to allow Win32::GetOSName() to return an empty
| description as the 2nd return value (e.g. Vista without SP).
| - Fix t/GetFileVersion.t for Perl 5.10
|
| 0.31 [2007-09-10]
| - Apply Cygwin fixes from bleadperl (from Jerry D. Hedden).
| - Make sure Win32::GetLongPathName() always returns drive
| letters in uppercase (Jerry D. Hedden).
| - Use uppercase environment variable names in t/Unicode.t
| because the MSWin32 doesn't care, and Cygwin only works
| with the uppercased version.
| - new t/Names.t test (from SĪbastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
> I couldn't find a ppm package for version 0.34 (or 0.35) that's
> suitable for perl 5.8. Is the version of Win32 that you already have
> (0.3) unsuited to your needs ? If so, someone (me, if necessary) could
> build you a ppm package of 0.34 (or 0.35). Let us know if that's what
> you want.
Unfortunately the person we hired a few months ago to maintain and
improve the PPM repositories is no longer working for ActiveState.
Feel free to file a bug in the ActivePerl bug database (and NOT the core
Perl5 database via perlbug):
http://bugs.activestate.com
It just may take a little while until we things resolved.
Cheers,
-Jan
