ActivePerl Setup - was Invalid change ordering?

[Scott Nowell]

Dirk,

You might have seen my last post, but the real problem was operator
error.  When I typed ppm and the GUI came up I "assumed" that was the
way to do things.  Oops.  Now I am trying the modified file you sent.

Scott 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vss2svn-users-bounces at lists.pumacode.org 
> [mailto:vss2svn-users-bounces at lists.pumacode.org] On Behalf Of Dirk
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 12:05 PM
> To: Vss2Svn Users
> Subject: Re: ActivePerl Setup - was Invalid change ordering?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried this also on a new machine and had a similar problem. 
> After a few remove/install cycles I got around it, but 
> installing only xml-sax and xml-sax-expat with the --nodeps flag:
> 
>  install xml-sax --nodeps
>  install xml-sax-expat --nodeps
> 
> If oyu try to install xml-sax-base later ppm will complain 
> about a version downgrade.
> 
> On my old computer I'm still running an older PERL 
> installation and the
> ppm3 (version 3.1) script does not complain about the two 
> files, even if they are provided by both packages.
> 
> Nevertheless the whole xml-sax-expat thing is only to speed 
> up the conversion. One can also use the default simple xml 
> parser XML::Parser.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> Scott Nowell schrieb:
> >  
> >   
> >> 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.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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