Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-06-08 Thread Adam Kennedy
I agree. With regards to ActivePerl, the reason the Vanilla (and later Strawberry) distributions were created in the first place was a lack of movement and response from ActiveState, including an email to me from them that said that they couldn't bundle the GCC compiler because parts of ActivePerl

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-06-06 Thread nadim khemir
On Sunday 01 June 2008 03.38.48 Adam Kennedy wrote: > I, for one, intend to make the very existence of camelbox superfluous by > making the reason for it neededing to exist go away. > I'm just not in a great hurry to do so. > Currently, GTK is not a problem anyone has apparently wanted solved > e

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-06-01 Thread Adam Kennedy
nadim khemir wrote: > It would be really cool if you and Adam could agree on a way of working so > people wouldn't have to install two installations of perl. Both of you seemed > happy with yourselves and not really wanting to do anything to change the > status quo. It is understandable but I be

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-31 Thread spicy jack
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:12 AM, nadim khemir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I recommended to peopl who wanted to use AsciiO to install CamelBox. A few > came back to me complaining they couldn't install because their companies use > proxies, thus blocking downloads. > > Could you add the possibi

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-31 Thread nadim khemir
Hi, I recommended to peopl who wanted to use AsciiO to install CamelBox. A few came back to me complaining they couldn't install because their companies use proxies, thus blocking downloads. Could you add the possibility to configure a proxy or is there another easy way to do the install? It w

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-02 Thread Adam Kennedy
spicy jack wrote: >> I don't really understand much about how camelbox works, I've looked in >> the repository but I don't really see much of anything in the way of >> code/etc, so I'm not sure at this point how exactly it works. Until I >> work that out, there's not much more I can add. >>

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-01 Thread spicy jack
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strawberry has some existing functionality for installing binary > packages, via both PPM and PAR packages. > > ppi also has support for hosting scripted installs at URIs via the p5i > file format. > > But part of the ma

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Kennedy
I'm still trying to work out exactly what camelbox is (i.e. how it works) but thanks for this, because I'd never seen the gnome windows package collection before. It looks like a fairly rich vein of packages that I can mine for Perl::Dist inclusion. spicy jack wrote: > In any case, the modules

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Kennedy
Strawberry has some existing functionality for installing binary packages, via both PPM and PAR packages. ppi also has support for hosting scripted installs at URIs via the p5i file format. But part of the mandate for Vanilla/Strawberry is to avoid inventing anything new and just take advantag

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-04-30 Thread spicy jack
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM, nadim khemir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anything special needed to help you maintain AsciiO on Camelbox? > > > I can't think of anything at the moment that would help with > > maintaining this. How about less dependencies? ;) > Unlikely (except some testi

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-04-30 Thread nadim khemir
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11.27.22 you wrote: > A binary created with PAR::Packer would not take as long to install, it's a "no install", copy, run, users love that. PAR and strawberry have been life savers on windows (and camelbox is cool too). > I switched 'perl.exe' with 'wperl.exe' in your bat

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-04-29 Thread spicy jack
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:16 AM, nadim khemir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a Windows XP running in a virtual box so I could give a try to > camelbox. > The install looked very professional. The install time is ok for a > development > environment but a tad long if one was to install a si

Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-04-29 Thread nadim khemir
Hi, On Tuesday 29 April 2008 04.35.45 spicy jack wrote: > Of note, I've finally created a package for Asciio, the ASCII art > drawing tool written in Gtk2-Perl. I tried to create a stand-alone > executable, but I haven't had any luck getting it working using the > 'pp' (PAR::Packer) tool yet. La

Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

2008-04-28 Thread spicy jack
Hi, I just posted a new release of Camelbox, a Gtk2-Perl stack for Windows. More info, including changes for this release, can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/camelbox/browse_thread/thread/84af754600339061 Of note, I've finally created a package for Asciio, the ASCII art drawing t