Re: ActivePerl on OS X: ppm not working, no DBD::mysql PPM available

Michiel Beijen <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:02:57 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl
Message-ID <CABD0r11QtebY=c5LwOXKVEmJrNoXe0jHKV1Q-aBKdsHavpxX3A@mail.gmail.com>
Jan,

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Jan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, we will probably switch to 64-bit-only builds on OS X for Perl 5.18
> next year. Switching the 5.16 builds right now will require setting up yet
> another PPM repo and build system, and will also not work well with the PPM
> Index pages.

Sure; I understand!

> As for the GUI crash, I heard back from QA that this issue only happens on
> OS X 10.8 systems that have been upgraded from an earlier version of OS X,
> and not on fresh installs of Mountain Lion. That way it slipped through the
> release testing.

This is indeed not a fresh install. I do not have any statistics, but
I think it is not uncommon to have a system that is upgraded to
Mountain Lion; upgrades of OS X are not very expensive and pretty
good. So it might be affecting more users.
--
Mike
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