On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David E. Wheeler
<david@justatheory.com> wrote:
Hello ActiveStaters,
The commonly used term is actually Activator. :)
I see that the DBD::Pg build always fails:
http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-Pg/
I'm sure this is because PostgreSQL is not installed on any of the PPM build boxes (smokers?).
Yes, that is one reason. We then need to apply several patches to build things correctly though (to statically link the client libs, deal with missing SIGALARM on Windows, etc).
We actually have all those changes, as we include DBD::Pg in all ActivePerl builds; they would just need to be converted into the distroprefs format used by the CPAN builders. It will take some time to do it, and hasn't been a big priority because ActivePerl already contains whatever the latest version of DBD::Pg was at the time of building AP. So this is really only about updating DBD::Pg for older releases of AP.
This is different from DBD::mysql, which is not included in ActivePerl due to GPL-only licensing. So it was more important to spend the extra time to get it into PPM.
So if I had any extra time to spare (hah!), I would probably try to get DBD::mysql to build on OS X first, because currently we don't cover this at all.
Cheers,
-Jan
