Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/9/02 00:29, "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about building a group blog of the Collective > Wisdom on Perl and OS X. http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/mosxperl/ > is a sample of what might go into it. > > If there's interest from readers and authors alike

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread Shannon Murdoch
Hi Pete, Unfortunately I'm not a command-line wiz <:(. Could you explain how the target file/directory parameters are usually passed to the script when it IS called from the command line? Cheers, -Shannon On 5/9/02 2:59 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread skylemon
I have not yet found any resource like this on the web yet, so I would agree that it is a Good Idea. We could maintain both a list of solved problems, and problems that people are begging to be solved (and maybe even have a number of votes for that problem to be solved first), possibly motiva

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread ellem
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 07:29 , Nathan Torkington wrote: > I've been thinking about building a group blog of the Collective > Wisdom on Perl and OS X. http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/mosxperl/ > is a sample of what might go into it. > > If there's interest from readers and authors

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread pete
Well, you might call a script like this: >perl foo.pl file1 file2 file3 where each argument to the script (in this case 3 files) is passed in to the script, separated by a space. If I created a DropScript out of my foo.pl, and dropped file1, file2, and file3 onto it, it would be just like ty

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Yes, Nat, and I am very close by -- Jax, FL -- if it isn't too much trouble; heck, I'll even supply the Pizza and Beer :) :-D -Sx- PS - AND I am not even having any trouble with Perl, MacOS X, Unix, nor XP -- but I am sure than I could find something that needs repairing ;) >> What do you

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread Charles Albrecht
More to the point, %ARGV -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 1:42 PM + 9/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Well, you might call a script like this: > > >perl foo.pl file1 file2 file3 > >where each argument to the script (in this case 3 files) is passed in >to the script, separated by a spac

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread Charles Albrecht
Er, @ARGV, that is. -C At 8:43 AM -0600 9/5/2002, Charles Albrecht wrote: >More to the point, > > %ARGV > >-Charles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >At 1:42 PM + 9/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Well, you might call a script like this: >> >> >perl foo.pl file1 file2 file3 >> >>where each argu

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread John Delacour
At 8:37 pm +1000 5/9/02, Shannon Murdoch wrote: >Unfortunately I'm not a command-line wiz <:(. Could you explain how the >target file/directory parameters are usually passed to the script when it IS >called from the command line? Suppose you have a perl script "test.pl" as below saved with UNIX

Re: DropScript recursive processing

2002-09-05 Thread pete
In the old MacPerl days (pre-Mac OS X) we would put this at the top of a script that expected command line arguments: @ARGV = ("argument1", "argument2", "etc"); Pete On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:48:40 -0600, "Charles Albrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Er, @ARGV, that is. > > -C > > At 8:43 AM

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread Gregory Cranz
Since no one else is playing Devil's Advocate I guess it's my turn: While I think it's a Good Thing to have shared resources, one must be careful not to over-specialize. There are a number of existing sites out there such as www.perlmonks.com and everythingmac.org which could also be populated

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Nathan Torkington wrote: > If there's interest from readers and authors alike, I can set this up > on perl.org and give as many people access to create and update > entries as they like. Count me in. David (who needs to update his OS X page...) --

Re: tips for Perl and Mac OS X

2002-09-05 Thread David Wheeler
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 07:00 AM, WC -Sx- Jones wrote: > PS - AND I am not even having any trouble with Perl, MacOS X, Unix, > nor XP -- but I am sure than I could find something that needs > repairing ;) Maybe Nat could mow your lawn? :-) David -- David Wheeler

Help - Error building Perl 5.6.1 on Jaguar

2002-09-05 Thread Chris Angelli
Dear Smart People, For reasons that escape me, I have upgraded my stable 10.1 environment to Jaguar. I am haveing a problem re-building Perl 5.6.1 and I haven't seen this problem previously on the list. Here is what I have done: 1. Installed 10.2 and the 10.2 development tools 2. Ran SoftwareUpd

Re: Help - Error building Perl 5.6.1 on Jaguar

2002-09-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 5/9/02 19:42, "Chris Angelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Smart People, > > For reasons that escape me, I have upgraded my stable > 10.1 environment to Jaguar. I am haveing a problem > re-building Perl 5.6.1 and I haven't seen this problem > previously on the list. Here is what I have d

Undefined symbols:_Perl_sv_setsv

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Leibel
Hi all, Running Perl 5.8.0 and trying to install Sys::Signal. Make test gave the error dyld: /usr/local/bin/perl Undefined symbols: _Perl_sv_setsv make: *** [test_dynamic] Trace/BPT trap Any clues gratefully appreciated. Steve L

Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Ken Williams
Yo, I notice that there's an application /Developer/Applications/PackageMaker.app that can create installable OS X packages. If people would find it useful, I could make a couple of packages for installing perl and put them in my CPAN directory (and probably the ports/ directory too?). The

Backup product

2002-09-05 Thread Ken Williams
Hey, There have been several discussions on this list about backup solutions, so I figured I'd ask whether anyone's got any experience with this product: http://www.cmsproducts.com/product_mac.htm It does look pretty neat if it works well. I can't find much info about the management softw

Re: Backup product

2002-09-05 Thread Puneet Kishor
no experience with this product, but this being the perl list and all, thought I would plug Dan Kogai's most excellent Psync. David Baker, with the help of a bunch of folks, has created a gui for it for those not terminally-inclined. Either way, after trying a bunch of solutions I found Psync

Re: Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Puneet Kishor
yes Please! I know I would love a installer for 561. I went through a great amount of heart-burn upgrading my stock 560 to 561 and have everything running. Except, tomorrow I'm gonna get my copy of Jagwyre and that will put the kibosh on everything. I will definitely want to get back up to 561

Re: Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Charles Albrecht
At 12:12 PM +1000 9/6/2002, Ken Williams wrote: >Yo, > >I notice that there's an application /Developer/Applications/PackageMaker.app that >can create installable OS X packages. If people would find it useful, I could make a >couple of packages for installing perl and put them in my CPAN direct

Re: Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Scott R. Godin
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:26:39 -0400, Puneet Kishor wrote: > yes Please! I know I would love a installer for 561. I went through a > great amount of heart-burn upgrading my stock 560 to 561 and have > everything running. Except, tomorrow I'm gonna get my copy of Jagwyre > and that will put the kibo

Re: Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Ken Williams
Okay, I've got a version working for 5.6.1. Turns out the PackageMaker is a little flaky, but it works. Anyone feel like trying out perl-5.6.1-1.dmg.gz in my KWILLIAMS/ cpan directory? If it seems to work, I'll get it listed in the ports/ directory on CPAN too. -Ken On Friday, Septem

Re: Installable packages

2002-09-05 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Charles Albrecht wrote: > At 12:12 PM +1000 9/6/2002, Ken Williams wrote: >> Yo, >> >> I notice that there's an application >> /Developer/Applications/PackageMaker.app that can create >> installable OS X packages. If people would find it useful, I >