On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:31:37AM -0500, McKown, John wrote: > Being the original questioner, I will say that anything I might write > for the "Librarian" functionality would probably be written in Perl. > Perl is fairly transportable. However, I am likely to end up using > modules from CPAN for utility functions (such an ftp and http > functions). I don't know how portable the various CPAN modules are. It > most likely varies greatly.
PLEASE don't use CPAN. You think DLL hell is a problem on Windows? You ain't seen nothing yet. You might take a look at Python, which includes a lot of the things that you need to go to CPAN to get for Perl in its standard distribution. > Parsing up these files should be so simple that even I could write a > program to do it. But the legalities stymie me. I'm a coward, I guess. No, I don't think you are. IBM's lawyers are justifiably feared. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
