Re: Help regarding ActiveState's PPM repository module for DBD-pg -- which IS currently available from wxPerl !

Hi,

On 21/04/2011 22:01, Jan Dubois wrote:

> Well, first of all, ActivePerl 5.12.2 build 1203 and later already include
> DBD-Pg, so there is no need to install it from PPM unless PPM has a later
> version (but see below).

That being the case, there's no point in me maintaining separate PPMs at 
wxPerl at all - which is really primarily just a wxPerl repository plus 
whatever is necessary to support that. I uploaded the existing PPMs 
simply because I had happened to build DBD::Pg for some of my own work 
and at the time there were a few 'hoops' to jump through building a VC6 
/ msvcrt.dll version.

If ActivePerl provides DBD::Pg anyway, no need for me to update.

I noticed in February that patches were applied to PostgreSQL source to 
make mingw builds work. The changes looked like much the same as might 
be required to get a VC6 build of libpq.dll + libpq.lib to work.

So perhaps next time AS takes a look at automating a PPM build of 
DBD::Pg + static dependencies it may be a lot simpler than the initial 
build was.

Mark