[Boston.pm] Fwd: [abcd] Can anyone give me details on Larry Wall at the Science Center on 3/31?

2009-03-27 Thread Bob Freeman
The low-down on the HU Larry Wall talk. Cheers! Bob Begin forwarded message: From: Greg Brockman brock...@hcs.harvard.edu Date: March 26, 2009 5:27:43 PM EDT To: Philip Durbin pdur...@hmdc.harvard.edu Cc: Freeman, Robert M. r...@hms.harvard.edu, a...@abcd.harvard.edu a...@abcd.harvard.edu

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [abcd] Can anyone give me details on Larry Wall at the Science Center on 3/31?

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Ricker
Thanks for the forward, that confirms the topic is same as the next day's talk at MIT. Bill On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Bob Freeman bobfreema...@speakeasy.netwrote: The low-down on the HU Larry Wall talk. Cheers! Bob Begin forwarded message: From: Greg Brockman

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [abcd] Can anyone give me details on Larry Wall at the Science Center on 3/31?

2009-03-27 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Nice to have confirmation - the announcement I had did not include the title, although it would have been interesting if Larry were to give different talks :) Best -F Bill Ricker wrote: Thanks for the forward, that confirms the topic is same as the next day's talk at MIT. Bill On

[Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Duane Bronson
With all the greatness of the module IO::All, I always have troubles installing it. Why is it so hard to install something so easy? Active State: build failures for the last 5-10 years on IO::All. The default ppm repository doesn't build it either. Best bet is to use

Re: [Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:01:09PM -0400, Duane Bronson wrote: apt-get: doesn't even have a search function, but I think the package is available with the name libio-all-perl. I have yet to try it because of network troubles with Ubuntu (don't get me started) crschm...@helios:~$ apt-cache

Re: [Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Duane Bronson wrote: apt-get: doesn't even have a search function... There was a push at one time to switch everyone over from apt-get to aptitude, but I see the latter mentioned less often these days. In any case, 'aptitude search' could prove useful if you don't remember the previously

Re: [Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Scaffidi
On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I usually resort to a source install if a package isn't available, but presumably the right way to handle it is to use a tool that repackages CPAN modules as Debian packages. Supposedly there is such a tool floating

Re: [Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Ricker
There was a push at one time to switch everyone over from apt-get to aptitude, but I see the latter mentioned less often these days. Much of the use case of Aptiutude is now covered by Synaptic and Update Manager gui's you can also search via the web at packages.debian.org. and

Re: [Boston.pm] IO::All on platform::All

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Ricker
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Steve Scaffidi sscaff...@gmail.com wrote: I've actually had a surprising amount of success packaging many CPAN modules for various Debian relatives by using CPANPLUS to resolve abd fetch dependencies, then packaging using dh-make-perl when i said CPAN2 i

Re: [Boston.pm] Ubuntu distribution upgrades

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Ricker wrote: Steve Scaffidi wrote: BTW: aptitude has many advantages over apt-get. I won't go into detail but it's *much* better at handling dependencies esp. with distro upgrades On Ubuntu, we usually use the ubuntu upgrade manager. but for ssh patching servers, i usually just do