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Re^4: Microsoft partners with Strawberry Perl to improve the CPAN
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 08, 2008 at 03:02 UTC
    They said they provide accounts to all CPAN authors, ... and most CPAN authors aren't interested.

    Man, (and you've gotta be a man), be a hero and go green. You could save the world a gob load of natural resource by supplying your local power station with those chips off your shoulders.

    If MS had suggested that they would only supply accounts to those CPAN authors that had shown an interest in supporting their modules on windows, you'd be up in arms. If they'd constrained it to only those modules that made special use of windows facilities, you'd be up in arms. They say: "Anyone who wants to", and you're still up in arms.


    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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Re^4: Microsoft partners with Strawberry Perl to improve the CPAN
by DStaal (Chaplain) on Dec 08, 2008 at 02:38 UTC

    Just because the module doesn't use XS, doesn't mean it'll work on Windows. I've got a module that doesn't work, because it deals with making a system() call to start another process, and I haven't gotten around to testing it on Windows. This could get useful...

    If nothing else, that's a huge amount of resources MS is putting forward.

Re^4: Microsoft partners with Strawberry Perl to improve the CPAN
by creamygoodness (Curate) on Dec 08, 2008 at 02:58 UTC

    There are portability issues affecting Windows outside the realm of XS -- see perlport.

    It's less work for non-XS modules to verify and maintain compatibility. Shouldn't that be all the more reason to do so? This initiative is probably most useful in such cases.

    --
    Marvin Humphrey
Re^4: Microsoft partners with Strawberry Perl to improve the CPAN
by zby (Vicar) on Dec 08, 2008 at 00:25 UTC
    While I have no exact statistics - I believe that quite a bit of CPAN modules use XS and nearly all of them rely on some XS in the prerequsites.