> "Peter" == Peter N Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> which in turn is stored in Config.pm, typically somewhere like
Peter> /Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm or System/Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm
Peter> this can be handy if you need to "correct" any settings (such as
Peter> library or
I've been happily using Fink to install some of my software, and I'm
considering whether I'd be better off putting Perl in /sw/bin instead of
/usr/bin.
Any thoughts, pro or con?
Thanks,
John A
see me fulminate at http://www.jzip.org/
At 11:43 AM -0500 11/18/02, John Adams wrote:
I've been happily using Fink to install some of my software, and I'm
considering whether I'd be better off putting Perl in /sw/bin instead of
/usr/bin.
Any thoughts, pro or con?
I wouldn't do either. Leave /sw for fink stuff, and /usr/bin for the
s
I leave all fink stuff in /sw/bin
I put all my other installed stuff under /usr/local whenever possible
I always try and leave /usr/bin alone.
My path is set to something like ...
/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin:/usr/bin
The principle being to avoid any possibility of collisions between my
stuff, fin
On Sunday, Nov 17, 2002, at 11:20 US/Pacific, Vic Norton wrote:
[..]
The "VTN::Utilities" and "VTN::Sppd" packages are here
/Library/Perl/darwin/VTN% ls -l
total 56
-rwxr--r-- 1 vicnorto admin 5427 Nov 2 16:26 Sorts.pm*
-rwxr--r-- 1 vicnorto admin 2116 Nov 17 12:28 Sppd.pm*
On Sunday, Nov 17, 2002, at 20:22 US/Pacific, Peter N Lewis wrote:
At 11:39 -0800 16/11/02, drieux wrote:
[jeeves: 1:] perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{osname} \n"; '
As for how this gets set - it gets set when your version of perl
is built for that specific OS.
which in turn is stored in
On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 08:43 US/Pacific, John Adams wrote:
I've been happily using Fink to install some of my software, and I'm
considering whether I'd be better off putting Perl in /sw/bin instead
of
/usr/bin.
Any thoughts, pro or con?
there are several basic arguments here that need to
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:56 PM, drieux wrote:
there are several basic arguments here that need to be addressed.
martin has pointed towards a 'name space solution' by having
your PATH environmental set to include the three basic sets
/usr/local/bin:/sw/bin:/usr/bin
I should add, i
On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 12:22 US/Pacific, Martin Redington wrote:
[..]
I might not hate the stock perl enough to blow it away, but having it
obscured by the PATH variable is exactly what I want.
Of course, there is an issue with the instinctive #!/usr/bin/perl,
with this approache, and I'v
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 03:33 PM, Peter N Lewis wrote:
For example, the system I want for mail is a mail server and
pop server that run as the mail account and all mailboxes are
private files, so there is no need for any special privs at
all - except you need root access to open the
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Heather Madrone wrote:
Most of my career was spent as a C/C++ systems programmer.
The damage I can do with a command line as root is nothing
compared to the damage I can do with a C compiler.
This makes no sense? Compiling a
Ken Williams wrote:
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Heather Madrone wrote:
Most of my career was spent as a C/C++ systems programmer.
The damage I can do with a command line as root is nothing
compared to the damage I can do with a C compiler.
This ma
Yes, /usr/bin is "traditional".
If it's not a full-blow release, you might even consider
/usr/bin/local
Cheers,
Bohdan
On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 11:45 America/New_York, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 11:43 AM -0500 11/18/02, John Adams wrote:
I've been happily using Fink to install some
At 11:29 AM 11/19/2002 +1100, Ken Williams wrote:
>On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
>>Heather Madrone wrote:
>>>Most of my career was spent as a C/C++ systems programmer.
>>>The damage I can do with a command line as root is nothing
>>>compared to the damage I ca
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Joseph Kruskal wrote:
> On 11/1/02 3:47 AM, William H. Magill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > ... journaled file system ...
>
> What is a journaled file system?
This has been answered already, but just to expand a bit: one very nice
feature of the late lamented BeOS was it'
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Heather Madrone wrote:
> At 12:46 PM 11/15/2002 +1100, Ken Williams wrote:
> >On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
> However, these past few days have been so discouraging that I have
> considered selling the Powerbook and surrendering to the evi
At 12:49 AM 11/19/2002 -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
>Actually, I'm a bit curious how you managed to install Perl 5.8.0 without
>first installing the Tools. Maybe I missed some detail...
I downloaded a binary.
>> Those Apple switch ads currently make steam come out my ears.
>
>Kill Your Television.
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