Re: Windows XP won't register rrdtool with perl

Me again.  I finally figure it out.  I hate it when I'm stupid.

The "platform" it was complaining about was not the OS platform but the version of Perl.

backreved perl to 5.8 and the install of rrdtools ppd ran fine.

While that may seem obvious to folks who use Perl a lot, it was not really obvious to me.  In my journey into the world of "linux ported to windows tools" I'm learning that Linux folks are a lot more litteral than windows folks.  We stupidly tend to assume that any version "equal to or greater than the indicated version" of various support modules will work, and our normal plan of attack is to just grab the most current non-beta stuff.  That mostly works, but not always, as in this case.  

Thanks for the forum, I hope this note will save someone else the days and days of futile research I put in trying to find out why it wouldn't install.  Okay then, off an running into my next brick wall!! :-)