More Newbie Help
Wow thanks for all the input! I'm slogging along with the Llama book, and I have some MySQL (new to that too) stuff working. I'm concerned, thought, that I'm creating a mess by installing modules and downloading stuff. Likewise I've been using CPAN with no clue as to what I'm doing. Is there a book or site that covers working with CPAN and using modules that is appropriate for Panther? Googling the O'Reily Mac site have turned up lots of fixes for gotchas, but not much for the newbie. That being said, is it normal that a lot of the CPAN stuff (of interest to me) is really old? It seems odd to be using 5 year old stuff! Mike
Re: More Newbie Help
Mike Lesser said the following on 2/4/05 10:53 AM: stuff. Likewise I've been using CPAN with no clue as to what I'm doing. Is there a book or site that covers working with CPAN and using modules that is appropriate for Panther? Googling the O'Reily Mac site have turned up lots of fixes for gotchas, but not much for the newbie. There's a new website that has been set up - http://www.cpanforum.com . . . it's very new but it looks to be a good place to post questions about modules that you're interested in. Of course, I hope that you've looked through http://www.cpan.org That being said, is it normal that a lot of the CPAN stuff (of interest to me) is really old? It seems odd to be using 5 year old stuff! Mike Well, it's a judgement call. I'm sure there are sites (such as banks) that run on code that was developed in a previous Perl version for which these modules work with. Which modules are you interested in? Perhaps there's another newer module that accomplishes the same functionality that you're looking for. -- Lola - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lolajl.net | Blog at http://www.lolajl.net/blog/ Terrorism delenda est! (Terrorism must be destroyed utterly!) I'm in Bowie, MD, USA, halfway between DC and Annapolis.
Re: More Newbie Help
On Feb 4, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Mike Lesser wrote: Googling the O'Reily Mac site have turned up lots of fixes for gotchas, but not much for the newbie. There's not much said about using Perl that's Mac-specific because there's really not all that much *to* say - for the most part, it's just like using Perl on any other UNIX variant. The gotchas you mentioned are the exceptions, areas where the Mac thinks different. That being said, is it normal that a lot of the CPAN stuff (of interest to me) is really old? You'll have to be more specific - it varies. The most popular modules are regularly maintained - the latest DBI, for instance, is just a few days old. Some modules might be regarded by their authors as finished - Text::Template, for example, is a workhorse that works very well, but it hasn't been changed in nearly two years. Some modules have been folded into the core Perl distribution, and the authors of those modules may have stopped updating the standalone versions. Other modules might very well be truly obsolete, abandoned, or never finished in the first place. sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org
