On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Michael Peters wrote:

>  Btw, ActiveState seems pretty busted right now for a whole 
>  lot of things.
>     http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/35219 
>  Granted this is 5.10 (mod_perl itself doesn't quite work 
>  yet with 5.10) but AS 5.8 has similar problems, just not 
>  as many.

For the benefit of ActivePerl users reading this, the
problem raised in http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/35219
about not being able to upgrade core modules was addressed
with ppm4:
   http://www.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE:-Beta-of-PPM-version-4-released-td4906225.html
(click on "Show quoted text" to see the release notes),
together with the adjustment of @INC to set C:\Perl\site\lib
before C:\Perl\lib.

See also the note at the top of
    http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.10-A.html
for known issues regarding the state of ActiveState's 10xx
ppm repository.

-- 
best regards,
Randy Kobes