Re: XML::LibXSLT - PPM for ActivePerl on Win32

Maurice Mengel schrieb am 29.12.2010 um 08:13 (-0700):
> I found this old mail of yours since I was searching the list.
> Apparently, there was no answer. Not sure if it makes any sense to
> still answer

Man, I've been eyeballing this thread for half a year now! :-)
Finally, a reply! Must have been christmas or something …

> Strawberry perl builds most xs modules without problems. I haven't
> tried LibXML, but I expect it would work easy. I use LibXML under
> cygwin, currently with perl 5.10. And it installs easily.

Thanks for the pointer to Strawberry.

I went the MSXML route back then, via Win32::OLE. Looks like this route
isn't being travelled extensively, and possibly never has been. There
are some gotchas, particularly if you skip the docs and jump straight to
the code.

(The fact that my then employer used an antediluvial Perl 5.6.1, which
doesn't handle Unicode in any decent way, made things rather unpleasant,
though.)

> ActivePerl seems a little dated to me, so maybe that's why updates are
> not coming.

I must say that Jan Dubois of ActiveState has been very, very helpful on
the ActivePerl list. ActivePerl releases have been aligned with those of
Perl, which means they have been quite frequent recently.

Building LibXSLT (which XML::LibXSLT depends on) on Windows, however, is
not straightforward. The configure.js build script appears to have bugs.
That might explain why there isn't a PPM for recent versions.

-- 
Michael Ludwig
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