On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:12:43PM -0500, David Golden wrote:
> So back at the beginning of February, there was some email traffic about 
> how ActiveState's automated PPM build system was using an outdated 
> version of Scalar-List-Utils, which was causing a cascading prerequisite 
> failure for many distributions.
> 
> Has anyone heard any updates on this?  Does anyone have an inside 
> contact at ActiveState that can shed some more light on the subject?
> 
The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl
function that Windows does not see as an exported function.  This was
changed with Perl 5.8.8.  Once ActiveState releases a Perl 5.8.8, they
should be able to upgrade the version of Scalar-List-Utils that they
distribute.

Steve Peters
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