Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:23:53PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Certainly use/no locale has no effect on the UTF-ness of filehandles. > > I thought that STDIN/OUT/ERR and any file handles you open were put into > :utf8 mode by default if your locale =~ m/utf-?8/i. D

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Nicholas Clark wrote: Certainly use/no locale has no effect on the UTF-ness of filehandles. I thought that STDIN/OUT/ERR and any file handles you open were put into :utf8 mode by default if your locale =~ m/utf-?8/i. Documented in perluniintro. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:22:15PM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: > > > perl 5.6.1 vanilla with -d > > > real9m15.680s > > > user8m43.168s > > > sys 0m1.527s > > > > > > perl 5.8.0 vanilla with -d > > > real65m43.926s

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Dirk Koopman
gt; I had to go to a RH7.3 machine, do it there and tar it back to my RH8.0 > > machine) > > Then you've got an unfair benchmark already - one perl build on gcc3, > the other on gcc2.something. Try this after ./Configure to clean up > the extra fluff that ggc3 put there during

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Richard Clamp
nchmark already - one perl build on gcc3, the other on gcc2.something. Try this after ./Configure to clean up the extra fluff that ggc3 put there during make depend (5.8.0 already has an equivalent of this): perl -ni~ -we 'print unless /: rh 5.8.0 > Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Dirk Koopman
/: > It would be nice to have a 5.6.2 release with the existing known fix patched > in. > > > perl 5.6.1 vanilla with -d > > real9m15.680s > > user8m43.168s > > sys 0m1.527s > > > > perl 5.8.0 vanilla with -d > > real65m43.926

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
#x27;. Stop. known problem interaction between gcc 3.1 (or later) and perl's make depend. The fastest way I know of to tidy the makefile is: perl -ni~ -we 'print unless /: perl 5.6.1 vanilla with -d > real9m15.680s > user8m43.168s > sys 0m1.527s > > per

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Dirk Koopman
8 builds for > Pentium baseline. Couldn't find a copy of 6.8.0 on CPAN :-), but I did benchmark 5.6.1 and the two 5.8.0's with my program that reads ~800,000 ascii records and produces statistics from them. I think the results are interesting. perl 5.6.1 vanilla compile Compile-time optio

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Christof Damian
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > How did you get Apache::MP3 workingon RH80? Did you install your > own apache (1.3)? no i am using the apache 2 which comes with redhat. i have an startup.pl which looks like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Apache2 (); use Apache::compat

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Christof Damian wrote: One thing that might help is unsetting LANG, which made some of my scripts twice as fast. Apache::MP3 is a lot faster and in case of gnupod for the iPod its the only way to make it work anyway. How did you get Apache::MP3 workingon RH80? Did you install your own apache (

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Christof Damian
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Are you able to file a "bug" report against gnupod? I suspect that a > few well placed Cs on file handles being used to read > binary data fix it. Not that it's really a bug in gnupod, as in > perl5 being a slowly moving target. I contacted the author a

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
east as Nick I-S and Jarkko intended, even if it's not what everyone else wanted) On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:23:55PM +, Christof Damian wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote: > > > > Question: Is it just me or is RH perl 5.8.0 horrendously slow? > > > > Sup

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Nigel Wetters
> From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The bigger problem is that RH 8 defaults to UTF 8 locales, and perl 5.8 > recognises that as a signal to treat all input/output as UTF8. Scalars ah! I guess this why I've had to add binmode :crlf to my scripts to prevent Malformed UTF-8 character war

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Christof Damian
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote: > > Question: Is it just me or is RH perl 5.8.0 horrendously slow? > > Supplimentary: is this RH or is it because it is compiled for > threads as default? Now that you mention it I noticed it too. One thing that might help is unsetting L

RE: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
> > Nicholas Clark said: > > You might want to build your own 6.8.0 for /usr/local > without threads > > hehe, i see we've jumped just a _little_ bit into the future here ;) > > Jody OOH - Pre-anticipated releases - Is perl being written by Apple inc? lol :D - Gareth

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Jody Belka
Nicholas Clark said: > You might want to build your own 6.8.0 for /usr/local without threads hehe, i see we've jumped just a _little_ bit into the future here ;) Jody

Re: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:36:30PM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: > Sorry to mention the word 'perl' on this mailing list, but (just now) I > can't quite see a better place to discuss this. > > Question: Is it just me or is RH perl 5.8.0 horrendously slow? > > S

[OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Dirk Koopman
Sorry to mention the word 'perl' on this mailing list, but (just now) I can't quite see a better place to discuss this. Question: Is it just me or is RH perl 5.8.0 horrendously slow? Supplimentary: is this RH or is it because it is compiled for threads as default? Further: is

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-29 Thread Mark Rogaski
--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :=20 : Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Currently migrating our code to 5.8.0 from 5.6.1. This is proving

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread David Cantrell
running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now > ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I know I'm very lazy, but what's > your excuse? My ibook running Jagwyre has 5.8.0 installed. Twice. Because for a previous version of MacOSX I had to compile 5.8 myself and when

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:19:12 +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the same > box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I > know I'm very lazy, but what's your excuse? Laziness and forgetfulness. And being unable

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:16:06AM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > Richard has 'mirth' plugged into our house network that has pretty much > every version of perl installed on it (actually, it doesn't have any > version of 2, 3 or 4...but there you go.) This is useful for regression > testing, but *b

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Leon Brocard wrote: > Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the > same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done > so? What do you mean, it's really easy to have multiple versions of perl? Sure I can install as many copies

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread Jonathan Peterson
That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I know I'm very lazy, but what's your excuse? You make that sound like a good thing... It's easy to have multiple ve

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread Leon Brocard
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether: > P.S. 5.6.0? Shall I get you some rocks to bash together too? That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so?

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Mark Fowler
Leon wrote: > The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 > was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at > work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it > on my personal colo box (it has so much stuff runni

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:29:45 +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Yes and no > Why? My workstations are running Debian unstable, so I get 5.8 without any effort (or major problems) there. The live server I develop for is still running 5.004_04, and this has been used

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Piers Cawley
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 > was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at > work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it > on my personal c

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread S. Joel Bernstein
At 27/11/2002 14:29 [], Leon Brocard wrote: Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? No. My development box runs 5.6.1 since that's in Debian stable, and because a local build of 5.8 broke loads of debian stuff (debian seems to use a lot of perl for its housekeeping and install scripts). My general

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Leon Brocard wrote: Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Yes. > Why? Unicode Done Right. Of course, there are lots of side benefits that I'm grateful to have gotten in the upgrade process, too. Having Test::More in core is most beneficial to me. PerlIO in conjuction with the aforementioned

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Mison
On 27/11/2002 at 14:29 +, Leon Brocard wrote: The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it on my personal colo box (it has so

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Nigel Wetters
Leon asked: > Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? Yes and no. My development machine is 5.8.0, but none of the servers are. This is because the sysadmin doesn't want to stray from the debian stable packages, and some of our redhat servers seem to be unmaintained and too scary for anyone to

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? Yes, because I always use the latest versions of all open source software. Failure to use the latest version of any open source program means that all requests for support or help in solving problems will be met with "Try upgrading to the latest ve

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Golds
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:29:45PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Consider this a small survey. > > Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? I use 5.8.0 for development at work, and am currently checking everything we use Perl for in production (They're mainly a Java house) to check we'

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:29:45PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? At $current_job I don't have anything in production, so it doesn't really matter. So I'm quite happy to do the build systems and testing for my C and C++ with perl scripts and modules ru

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:29, Leon Brocard wrote: > Do you use Perl 5.8.0? Why? Yes. Because it's there. If I found myself using any features specific to 5.8.0 I'd be a bad person.

RE: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Gareth Kirwan
> The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 > was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at > work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it > on my personal colo box (it has so much stuff running it'd

5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Leon Brocard
The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it on my personal colo box (it has so much stuff running it'd be a pain to update).

[jhi@iki.fi: Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 2]

2002-06-21 Thread Leon Brocard
Time to do some more testing on RC2. Please try and test your local apps with this RC2 to see if your code with work under 5.8.0. - Forwarded message from Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Perl 5.8.0 Release Ca

[jhi@iki.fi: 5.8.0 RC1 has been released]

2002-06-01 Thread Nicholas Clark
As you may have already read on use.perl.org, 5.8.0 RC1 is out. If you have the time, please try to break it. Nicholas Clark - Forwarded message from Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm list-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

ENOSCHWERN [schwern@pobox.com: Make Schwern Poor before 5.8.0]

2001-11-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
MAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Make Schwern Poor before 5.8.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Spam-Rating: lux.valueclick.com 1.6.2 0/0/N Here's something that would be nice to get done, finish off testing last three dozen modules and let YAS have $500 of my