Re: magic bullet needed for Perl upgrades on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread Marcus Ramberg
On fredag, feb 28, 2003, at 18:20 Europe/Oslo, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:39 PM -0500 2/27/03, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Daniel Stillwaggon wrote: Any perl application could ship with all of the perls and modules that it requires in its .pkg. Before

Re: magic bullet needed for Perl upgrades on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Stillwaggon wrote: On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 09:20 US/Pacific, Dan Sugalski wrote: A way to do packaging would be good, though there are licensing issues there that you don't have to deal with when using system-installed code. Would the

Re: no-no?

2003-03-01 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Peter N Lewis wrote: Actually, since I've done this, installing 5.8 over your stock perl does not seem to cause any problems in general. Maahahahahah, NOT YET, it hasn't! The possibility exists that you'll be reverted back to 5.6 with an OS

Re: magic bullet needed for Perl upgrades on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Kaehny
Hi, I'll chime in as an OSX user and perl user. I think you need to define this a little better. Pardon me for a long post of no code or even design, but I think as a direction I need to get this clear to myself. This applies to any distribution of an OS which includes Perl (or any other

Re: magic bullet needed for Perl upgrades on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread David R. Morrison
I can't resist chiming in to this discussion. The problem of how to have multiple versions of Perl coexist on a system was solved in Perl long ago. It involves storing certain things in directories labeled with the version number, and specifying those directories at compile-time so that they are

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:28:58PM -0600, Joe Davison wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote: A .pkg is specifically just a distribution of files to be installed using the Installer program. You can add pre- and post- actions to a package (which I should have done for

Re: favorite xml parser?

2003-03-01 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 03:00 PM, stephen rouse wrote: with XML::DOM and XML::Parser (to try the SAX parsing method). i was wondering: is one way preferred over the other for some reason, or is it pretty much just a matter of preference? There is no golden rule - you need to decide which

Re: favorite xml parser?

2003-03-01 Thread Dan Brian
On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 03:00 PM, stephen rouse wrote: with XML::DOM and XML::Parser (to try the SAX parsing method). i was wondering: is one way preferred over the other for some reason, or is it pretty much just a matter of preference? Preference and application. Personally, I'm

Re: favorite xml parser?

2003-03-01 Thread Dan Brian
If you're new to XML processing, XML::Simple::LibXML is a bare-bones LibXML wrapper that will get you up and running quickly. Sorry, make that XML::SimpleObject(::LibXML).

Re: [Really OT] More Terminal/Finder cooperation

2003-03-01 Thread Jeremy Mates
To reveal files in the Finder, the nifty open(1) command is faster than osascript and supports multiple files easily. Use a shell script or shell function such as the following. I called it rif and placed it under the ~/bin/`uname` directory to avoid the script being in the command path on other

Re: magic bullet needed for Perl upgrades on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 28/2/03 at 12:39 PM, Peter N Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, don't even think about trying to build a smaller bundle - people in general will not even blink before 10MB these days, and in general wont worry about it until it is *much* bigger than that. I