On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Henry Hartley wrote:
>  Wayne Simmons [mailto:wsimmons@[...].com] wrote:
> 
> >> I seem to remember Jan saying they were no longer doing the
> >> repositories, maybe it was just for perl 5.10. You can always use
> >> the CPAN perl module on the command line....

That is not correct; ActiveState continues to provide PPM repositories
for Perl 5.8 (32-bit only) and Perl 5.10 (32- and 64-bit).

>  Except that cpan requires a compiler for non-pure-perl modules. Little

It does, but you can always install one using `ppm install MinGW` to
get a functional CPAN shell (that is, if your PPM is working).  ActivePerl
5.10.1.1006 will even automatically download and install MinGW for
you when you invoke the CPAN shell the first time if you don't have
a C compiler on your PATH.

>  things like DBI - yes, that's pretty important. If they are "no longer
>  doing the repositories" then I think perl on WinXP will shortly die. I
>  hope that's wrong. I need perl but I'm stuck on Win here at work.

There is something preventing LWP from seeing your http_proxy environment
variable.  The error message doesn't even come from PPM itself, it is
LWP::UserAgent::proxy() that is complaining about "10.1." not being
a valid proxy address.

You may want to write a small test program using LWP::simple to download
a file from the web and see if you run into the same issue.

Cheers,
-Jan


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