[James Cridland]

Installing this on an ActivePerl build for Windows 2000.

So far, I've managed to get further installing the modules. ActivePerl uses PPM modules. To install, type "PPM" into a command box, then type "install [package name]".

Which is where I've managed pretty well, until the last three. Package names differ slightly, but this is what I've installed so far, with their CPAN equivalent names...


cpan> install News::NNTPClient
News-NNTPClient

cpan> install Net::SMTP
NetServer-SMTP

cpan> install DBD::mysql::Install
DBD-Mysql

cpan> install Text::Autoformat
Text-Autoformat

cpan> install Date::Parse
Date-Manip

cpan> install MIME::Tools
MIME-tools

cpan> install URI::Find
URI-Find

cpan> install MIME::WordDecoder
?

cpan> install HTML::Entities
?

cpan> install Mail::Address
?

...and as you can see, I'm stuck with the last three. I'm still persevering, and I hope this is useful to some who are trying to install it on my kind of setup (ActivePerl, Apache, Win2000).


Until then, I've found a script which offers both read and write functionality just through PHP - check out http://forums.mediauk.com/usenet/ for a demonstration and a link to the source. However, it doesn't use mySQL or indeed any database structure (probably quite easy to patch for a programmer who knows what they're doing, mind.)

It would make more sense, to this user at least, to have a fully native PHP solution rather than having to use Perl: since, as I understand it, all the necessary code's already in PHP.