a. No, they were paying me to develop a test suite...
b. Because I wouldn't want to be sued by ... oh, that was close ;-)
b.b. Probably spent too long "south of the border".
c. I agree, but this is the usual case of them developing for windoze and
exploder and not giving a flying f*** about the
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:43:36AM +0200, Richard Foley wrote:
> This sounds similar to the response I got when reporting a number of bugs in
> released software at a company which shall remain nameless. The suggested
> fix
> was for me to:
>
> "change your operating system"...
>
> The
This sounds similar to the response I got when reporting a number of bugs in
released software at a company which shall remain nameless. The suggested fix
was for me to:
"change your operating system"...
There's really no (polite) answer to that.
Ciao
Richard
--
Richard Foley
Ciao -
On 26 April 2011 13:24, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On 23/04/2011 13:46, Sue Spence wrote:
>>> Beyond installing my own Perl
>>
>> Do this. Best to ignore the system Perl IMO.
>
> I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time
> I've been using OS X, and I don't recall any
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Would they care more if they got lots of polite bug reports from registered
developers who care about Apple's SNAFU, encouraging Apple to re-instate the
PPC assembler for XCode 4? Is XCode 4*supposed* to support the PPC-enabled
OS X versions? Or is it "Lion only"?
It's
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 07:50:14PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 02:10:57AM +0100, me said:
> > That said - it's still highly ... let's call it "suboptimal" that if you
> > install the latest versions of the tools you can't install XS modules on
> > OSX.
>
> FWIW I wrote s
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Simon Cozens wrote:
> I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time
> I've been using OS X, and I don't recall any problems.
A System Update back in 2009 broke IO.pm if you'd updated it from CPAN
http://bulknews.typepad.com/blog/20
On 23/04/2011 13:46, Sue Spence wrote:
>> Beyond installing my own Perl
>
> Do this. Best to ignore the system Perl IMO.
I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time
I've been using OS X, and I don't recall any problems. (Of course, that may be
the RDF talking.) I
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 02:10:57AM +0100, me said:
> That said - it's still highly ... let's call it "suboptimal" that if you
> install the latest versions of the tools you can't install XS modules on
> OSX.
FWIW I wrote something up here
http://deflatermouse.livejournal.com/149721.html
so tha
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Piers Cawley wrote:
> They'll probably argue it's accounting rules.
That particularly bizarre accounting law got changed and no longer
applies (which apple knows - they lobbied for said change)
Mark
David Leadbeater wrote:
> In an extracted copy of the dist, try something like:
>
> eval $(perl -V:ccflags); perl Makefile.PL CCFLAGS="$(echo "$ccflags" | sed
> 's/-arch ppc//')" && make && make test
>
> i.e. take the ccflags perl was compiled with, remove the -arch ppc option and
> then pas
Hi,
On 22 Apr 2011, at 22:20, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Beyond installing my own Perl (which I can do but is kind of a ball
> ache) what's the best solution to this. I've found an old copy of Xcode
> on their site now after some poking around but saying "Install an old
> version of software" is a l
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Sue Spence wrote:
> On 22 April 2011 22:20, Simon Wistow wrote:
>> Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
>> have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
>> puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for
On 22 April 2011 22:20, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
> have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
> puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
> sufficiently evil you have to buy Xcode
On 22 Apr 2011, at 22:20, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
> have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
> puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
> sufficiently evil you have to buy X
On Friday, April 22, 2011, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Which would be fine. Except that the
> system Perl is built *with* arch ppc.
Why are you installing modules in the system Pel anyway?
- Apple will screw you if you do this. An update in a system update
will kill your code at done point (it's happ
I'm using XCode 4 and things are fine. But I'm running the developer
preview of Lion which is entirely ppc free.
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Ah. So _this_ is what fucked jwz.
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> Simon Wistow wrote
Ah. So _this_ is what fucked jwz.
--
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Simon Wistow wrote:
Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You have to
install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping puppies to death
with nuns or
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:43:23PM +0100, Dave Cantrell said:
> Paying for compilers is so 1980s. Please at least tell me that they
> ship an XCode DVD along with the OS.
I did actually find the previous version on one of the DVDs, and as Mike
points out it's actually findable on the Apple site.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
> have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
> puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
> sufficiently evil y
On 2011-04-22, at 5:20 PM, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
> have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
> puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
> sufficiently evil you have to bu
Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
sufficiently evil you have to buy Xcode. True it's only $4 but it's
still a giant fuck y
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