[pm-h] Error 401 Authorization Required

[Todd Rinaldo]

I can do that. I have a TON of experience maintaining perl distros,
including the CPAN modules that go with them. I can talk about the problems
involved and windows vs UNIX issues.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Fraser Baker <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> **
> That would be good, sort of a PERL innards, but it needs to include those
> lazy folks (Windows users) such as myself.
>
> Fraser
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Houston.pm located in Houston, TX. <houston at pm.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 8:35 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [pm-h] Error 401 Authorization Required
>
>  Maybe we should have a Perl install fest for one of our meetings!
>
> Mark
>
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> *From:* Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net>
> *To:* "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 7:44 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [pm-h] Error 401 Authorization Required
>
>
> On 3/15/2013 6:41 AM, Mark Allen wrote:
>
> Out of sheer curiosity why stick at 5.8?
>
>
>
> No particular reason.  I upgraded once from
> ActivePerl-5.6.1.635 to 5.8 (back in 2003) and
> then just remained there.  Then I finally decided
> to upgrade 2 months ago, but it didn't go well.
>
> I just found this note dated 12/22/2012 that
> I posted to Perl Beginners.  I wrote both
> parts of this:
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
>
> Please ignore the post below.  The answer is that
> it tries to install to C:/Perl64, but for some
> odd reason never creates that directory, or at
> least I can't see it or get to it by typing the
> address into file explorer, even though it says
> it installs fine.
>
> This version of ActiveState also won't install over
> the older version.  You have to delete the older
> version to get this to install.
>
> I don't think ActiveState is doing such a great
> job of maintaining this Perl for non-business
> users.  That is my opinion.
>
> It's not working now, so I will have other
> questions to post soon.
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
>
>
> Just tried to upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.16.1 (64bit)
> on one of my machines.  Ran this:
> ActivePerl-5.16.1.1601-MSWin32-x64-296175.msi
> and it installed fine, but I can't find it.
>
> I normally keep Perl in C:/Perl, but when I
> go there it's still 5.8.0.  I did a search for 'active'
> and '16.1' and 'Perl' and 'bin', but can't find it anywhere.
>
> I also checked the documentation for install location,
> but didn't find it.
>
> This is on Win7.
>
> I just found at this location:
> http://tinyurl.com/dxmh9oe
> that "Perl is installed by default in C:\Perl".  That
> is where I want it, but it doesn't look like it whet
> there.  I have perl.exe, perl5.6.1.exe, and perl5.8.0.exe
> files in C:/Perl/bin.  The newest file in that directory
> is libeay32.dll from 2/2012.
>
>
> Very odd.  If anybody knows where it installs please
> let me know.
>
>
> Mike Flannigan
>
>
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