Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

On 1-Sep-09, at 8:56 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau <[email protected]>  
wrote:

>> Same goes with CPAN. Just because it is there doesn't mean that it  
>> must be
>> used. Most end users prefer to use a method other cpan for  
>> installing app
>> and modules, such as ports apt or yum, or an msi file.
>
> or urpmi :)
>
> I know, I know, mandriva is just not hype anymore..
>
>> Sdl-perl has been in cpan for 9 years and that hasn't helped much.  
>> It has
>> been on the backs of the deb and rpm maintainers to make everthing  
>> play
>> nice. And I would credit guillaume and friends for getting things  
>> packaged
>> and out there.
>
> Thanks. Well, I can't remember how I first tried sdl-perl. I surely
> don't like/use cpan a lot, so I am not sure if it wasn't packaged as
> an RPM in mandriva before I started developing FB. But surely what I
> remember is that I spotted a few bugs in sdl-perl when developing FB
> :)
If you remember or can find them some of the bugs. Can you post them  
onto RT?

> And also what I remember is that for the sake of installing/playing
> FB, a lot of persons had to install/package sdl-perl, something they
> really never heard of.
>
Yup I remember that.
> -- 
> Guillaume Cottenceau - http://zarb.org/~gc/
Kartik Thakore