ActivePerl Setup

[Toby Johnson]

Scott Nowell wrote:
>  
>   
>> Here is it setup procedure again:
>>
>> I'm a Perl novice, but here's what works for me on Windows XP:
>> 1. Install ActivePerl from
>> http://www.activestate.com/products/activeperl/
>> 2. Start the ActivePerl Package Manager (ppm3.bat) and run the 
>> following commands:
>>   install dbi
>>   install dbd-sqlite2
>>   install time-modules
>>   install config-ini
>>   install text-glob
>>   install xml-sax-expat
>>
>> 3. Then create or edit /{path to perl 
>> installation}/site/lib/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini so that it includes:
>>
>> [XML::SAX::Expat]
>> http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1 
>> http://xml.org/sax/features/validation = 1 
>> http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities = 1 
>> http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities = 1
>>
>> 4. Start a command line with the working folder of the vss2svn.pl 
>> script 5. Make sure you have the perl/bin path in your local PATH 
>> variable 6. Run the script by calling vss2svn.pl plus all of the 
>> parameters
>>     
>
> I am getting errors with the above instructions setting up ActivePerl.
> I am trying to use a patch that was supplied to the vss2svn perl script,
> but have never set up perl before.  Prior testing was with the .exe
> version only.
>
> All works fine until I get to the xml-sax-expat step.  That consistently
> fails saying:
>
> ERROR: File conflict for 'C:/Perl/html/site/lib/XML/SAX/Base.html'.
>     The package XML-SAX has already installed a file that package
> XML-SAX-Base
>     wants to install.
>
> Am I using the correct sequence / correct instructions?  I am using
> version 5.8.8.820 of ActivePerl which is loading version 4.01 of PPM.
>   

I've never seen such an error using PPM, but I've never used a 4.x 
version. Maybe it has stronger default checking for files overwriting 
each other... does "ppm help" list an option for disabling that checking?

Otherwise, maybe you should try ActivePerl 5.8.6 or 5.8.7, since those 
use PPM 3.