On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:36 -0500, tony seth wrote: > Hi There, I've just got a question, in the news article you mentioned > active state Perl, how different will this be under linux? and will > this still mean that the libconfig-tiny package will be necissary?
Thanks for the question. One one level, it doesn't change anything on Linux because on Linux we just use the perl installation from your distributor, so all of the standard modules will be there. However, because all of the standard modules will be there on Windows, too, we can start to make use of them more. One thing I'd like to do is to make it so that the launcher accepts single keystrokes as opposed to making the user have to press ENTER after their choice. That would make it quicker and more polished. In the future I'm sure there could be even more exciting benefits to the user, but the main one is maintainability for the developers going forward. Regarding Config::Tiny: it's not standard, so is still included in the Windows builds and its recommended that Linux users install their distributor's libconfig-tiny-perl (or equivalent) package. I suppose if some distributions don't provide it (Debian and Ubuntu do) then we could include it in the next release. I hope this answers your questions. best regards, -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
