From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Styma, Robert E (Robert) Sent: 09 January 2012 14:02 To: Jan Dubois; [email protected] Subject: RE: Window 7 x64, @inc search question
> Well I tried upgrading to the newest Perl 5.14 which is also 64 bit > capable. I discovered that Tk.pm is not yet available from ppm. > So I backed off to 5.12 which says Tk.pm is available on the ppm > web site. For reasons I have not yet figured out, I get timeouts > accessing ppm4.activestate.com. Firewall/proxy settings? That address gets me redirected to http://code.activestate.com/ppm. Looking up Tk suggests that the latest version (804.030) fails to build, and the previous version (804.029) fails some tests for Perl 5.14. Which is a shame. Fortunately for me all of my Tk scripts are all on Linux. Do you feel up to building it yourself? The above suggests that 804.029 might be the version to try, if you think you can live with the failed tests. > Just as a slightly off topic question. Since my original question was > answered with a top post, is this acceptable on this list? The guys on > the Fedora lists get all bent out of shape if someone top posts. My preference with regard to top posting is probably with the Fedora guys, as this post might suggest. However, a lot of the posters to this list seem to prefer top posting (or just use a mail agent that encourages it). I would complain, but I think I would be swimming against the tide. Plus, I can find more interesting things to do than get worked up about it. > There are various references to incompatibilites between pm modules > on 5.6 and 5.14 although I have not gotten far enough (not havimg Tk) to > be sure if any of them affect the local .pm modules in my site.lib. Is there > a summary of what sort of things break between 5.6 and 5.14? > Sorting that out from the release notes is about as effective as ploughing > ahead and just debugging. The might be something in the delta documentation for core modules (see perldoc perl.*delta). For non core modules, their Changes file might be useful. HTH -- Brian Raven Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
