Hi Glenn, hi Alan,
Glenn Linderman perl-at-NevCal.com |newsgroups 1| wrote:
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I've never built PAR from source, but I have built other modules. How
can I obtain the "latest" from the subversion repository, or is that
even possible to non-developers?
I don't even have subversion installed, nor have I tried to figure out
where/how to obtain subversion, but I do have Tortoise CVS installed to
access source for other projects. Likely that won't help for access to
subversion projects.
Is there any document you could point me at that would get me started
with obtaining the latest source, or would it be much much easier to
download a source package from CPAN and apply the patch and compile?
You should check out subversion it's much improved over CVS in many
respects. Subversion is trivial to install on Linux systems which have
some kind of package manager (Debian, Suse...). If you're stuck on
Windows, you'll have to google for it, but there are Perl clients for
Subversion repositories, so it's certainly possible and probably quite
easy to install. (Probably just a CPAN module.)
Once subversion works, you can get the latest version with the following
command:
svn checkout http://svn.openfoundry.org/par/
Since 0.90 is very recent, there haven't been any changes except for
Alan's fix. So if you would like to get 0.90 from CPAN and add the one
line change, you're probably a bit quicker unless you have svn on your
machine already.
Steffen
