Re: [MacPerl] MacCPAN Comments

[David Turley <dturley@pobox.com>]

In message "[MacPerl] MacCPAN Comments", Arved Sandstrom wrote:

>But this morning, as a result of this thread, I spent less than 20 minutes
>downloading and installing ActiveState Build508 (a 5.00502 Perl), and
>*also* querying the ActiveState package repository, and using PPM to
>download and install 3 non-XS packages (I only have CW on the particular
>machine, and PPM looks to build with VC++ or the like), *and* run a few
>test scripts (just extracting the Synopsis, usually).

FWIW, you do not need a compiler to install any modules that are listed in
the package repository. I have installed GD,TK, DBI, and DBD::* among
others with no compiler at hand. I think this is what MACPAN should/is
shoot(ing) for.

cheers,
david

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