Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:07 AM, Ken Williams wrote: I suggest going straight to Apple and pitching the idea of developing CamelBones for them. Been there, tried that - three times now. The first time was before Jaguar's release; Apple opted to include their own in-house bridge instead.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Gisle Aas
Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To most developers using Cocoa or Carbon, building a fat binary is painless - it's a matter of checking the right box in Xcode. The problem I'm facing is that for CamelBones, because of the way Perl builds its modules, the transition will be far more

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
They say misery loves company - so here it is: Python on Mac OS X for Intel is not going to be a seamless transition. http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/06/06/python-on-mac-os-x- x86 sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume:

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel T. Staal
So, how can we help? I do doubt that long-term Camelbones can support you if it hasn't already, but specific one-time causes can often get quite a bit in the way of donations. If you need an Intel Mac to continue builds, post a goal and a link to donate. I bet you'll make your goal. Daniel T.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Lola Lee
Daniel T. Staal wrote: So, how can we help? I do doubt that long-term Camelbones can support you if it hasn't already, but specific one-time causes can often get quite a bit in the way of donations. If you need an Intel Mac to continue builds, post a goal and a link to donate. I bet you'll

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Sherm == Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sherm I've thought about doing that, but I have my doubts. I was registered Sherm a couple of years ago to give a talk about CamelBones at O'Reilly's Sherm OSCON. Only three or four people registered for it, so it was Sherm cancelled due to lack

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
Is there any reason you would NEED to compile it fat? Does anybody expect that the same partition will boot on both x386 and PowerPC macs? Ian On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:32 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Gisle Aas wrote: Why would it be painful to compile perl and its

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.6.7, at 11:13 PM, Robert wrote: Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ian Ragsdale wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Jobs is insane. I'm not so sure about that. IBM seems unwilling or unable to produce mobile G5s, which is

CGI script running as a given user?

2005-06-07 Thread Rich Morin
I've got a Perl CGI script that acts as a system browser. For example, it can look at files and directories and say interesting things about them. This works fine, as long as the files are world-readable, but fails (because Apache runs as 'www') as soon as the user wanders into private areas.

Re: CGI script running as a given user?

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.6.7, at 11:51 PM, Rich Morin wrote: I've got a Perl CGI script that acts as a system browser. For example, it can look at files and directories and say interesting things about them. This works fine, as long as the files are world-readable, but fails (because Apache runs as 'www') as

OT: no shine (Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.)

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.6.7, at 05:47 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: For me, the computer industry just lost its last little bit of shine. For me, it lost that shine years ago. When I began learning to program, everything was new. Every week, it seemed, someone was

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel T. Staal
Ian Ragsdale said: Is there any reason you would NEED to compile it fat? Does anybody expect that the same partition will boot on both x386 and PowerPC macs? For that matter, look into if you need to compile it on a Mac... If you can get enough of the toolset to run under Darwin, you could

Re: ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Dubois) wrote: Today ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X. ActivePerl 5.8.7 for Mac OS X is now available for free download from: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePerl/ And besides, ActiveState will make sure

Re: Universal Binary vs. Perl5

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Kogai) wrote: What's gonna happen to XS? -- It already uses .bundle so in theory it can handle multiple architectures but in practice? Dunno. I do know that building for multiple platforms worked with the same

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Joseph Alotta
I'm not so sure about that. IBM seems unwilling or unable to produce mobile G5s, which is a market that Apple considers very important. They also are 2 years behind schedule on 3.0Ghz G5s, and appear to be focusing on video game processors instead of desktop and mobile processors.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: I used to be a NeXt developer. This announcement is very reminiscent of the NeXt announcement to stop making those little black boxes and bring NeXt OS on Intel chips. We had just bought a ton of hardware and they demo this clunky 386 PC.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Joseph Alotta wrote: I used to be a NeXt developer. This announcement is very reminiscent of the NeXt announcement to stop making those little black boxes and bring NeXt OS on Intel chips. We had just bought a ton of hardware and they demo this clunky 386 PC. First of all, it looked

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Ian Ragsdale wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: I used to be a NeXt developer. This announcement is very reminiscent of the NeXt announcement to stop making those little black boxes and bring NeXt OS on Intel chips. We had just bought a ton of hardware and they

Launching Perl Script from Office X

2005-06-07 Thread Janet Goldstein
Not sure whether this question is appropriate for this list if not, could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks. I have an Excel macro, developed with Excel 2000 for Windows, that executes a Perl script using Win32 API calls (CreateProcessA(), etc.) after creating a

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Ian Ragsdale wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: Did NeXT produce their own boxes, or did they allow installs on any PC with supported hardware. I believe that is a key difference. Apple boxes will be exactly

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Brian McKee wrote: On 7-Jun-05, at 1:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Why wouldn't you? Memory, drives, video, etc. are all the same right now. Motherboard has pretty standard features, other than it is setup for a Power processor. Apple has been going cheap for a while, SCSI - IDE ring

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: In fact, the first thing I thought after hearing about the x86 announcement was oooh, I hope CamelBones continues to work!. Of the trouble points I mentioned - a fat perl, a tool chain that will build fat binaries while running on PPC,

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Ian Ragsdale wrote: Is there any reason you would NEED to compile it fat? Does anybody expect that the same partition will boot on both x386 and PowerPC macs? No, but end users will expect a downloaded binary to be able to work on either one. sherm--

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Daniel T. Staal wrote: For that matter, look into if you need to compile it on a Mac... If you can get enough of the toolset to run under Darwin, you could grab any old PC box if you needed too. Wouldn't help - Cocoa's not part of Darwin. sherm-- Cocoa

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Lola Lee wrote: in my recent performance review, we've agreed that I will have the opportunity to leran another programming language, like PHP. Ouch. That hurts. PHP? Did you tell them you already know a *sane* LAMP language - Perl? There are applications

Hints for 64bitall (PPC!) Darwin perl

2005-06-07 Thread Dominic Dunlop
From the la la la la, life goes on department: Here's a preliminary patch against perl patchlevel 24717 to make 64bitall perl build on Mac OS 10.4.x (Darwin 8.x): --- perl-current-64bitall/hints/darwin.sh-as-received2005-05-11 12:09:35.0 +0200 +++

Re: Hints for 64bitall (PPC!) Darwin perl

2005-06-07 Thread Dominic Dunlop
On 7 Jun 2005, at 17:01, I wrote: Here's a preliminary patch against perl patchlevel 24717 to make 64bitall perl build on Mac OS 10.4.x (Darwin 8.x): Two additional test failures to add to the list when built with the new compiler in just-released XCode Tools 2.1:

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Brian McKee
On 7-Jun-05, at 1:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Why wouldn't you? Memory, drives, video, etc. are all the same right now. Motherboard has pretty standard features, other than it is setup for a Power processor. Apple has been going cheap for a while, SCSI - IDE ring any bells? It would be a

[OT] Re: FORTH

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
I was just wondering what the magic was that you saw in FORTH. My understanding is that it is a very low level language. Have you ever played with LISP? Think of FORTH as LISP without parenthesis underneath everything, except that it never developed enough of a following to develop its own

Re: ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.6.8, at 04:24 AM, Lola Lee wrote: John Delacour wrote: Very nice and most welcome, though still not as easy as the Windows installation. May I suggest that you include at least the configuration notes in the distribution. Once I had returned to the AS site and found the

Re: ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X

2005-06-07 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Dubois) wrote: Today ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X. ActivePerl 5.8.7 for Mac OS X is now available for free download from:

Re: ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X

2005-06-07 Thread brian pink
My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their site, is why would you use this install? any takers? - brian

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread John Horner
My main question about the change to Intel is why the developer pack, whatever it was, costs so much? What do you get for your $999? I was expecting something free to download to developer members.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Horner wrote: My main question about the change to Intel is why the developer pack, whatever it was, costs so much? What do you get for your $999? I was expecting something free to download to developer members. They throw in a Pentium4 / 3.x gHz computer with the

RE: ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X

2005-06-07 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, brian pink wrote: My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their site, is why would you use this install? Some reasons I can come up with: * You want to use the latest maintenance version of Perl and not wait until Apple updates OS X. Panther ships

RE: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Horner wrote: My main question about the change to Intel is why the developer pack, whatever it was, costs so much? What do you get for your $999? I was expecting something free to download to developer members. They throw

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread John Horner
They throw in a Pentium4 / 3.x gHz computer with the deal. Phrase it that way and it's actually kind of cheap... :-/ Oops. I must have missed that part in the excitement! So that means IntelMacs (MacTels? PentiuMacs?) will be out in the wild very shortly, in that sense at least. How

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of Wednesday, June 8, 2005 9:02 AM +1000, John Horner is alleged to have said: My main question about the change to Intel is why the developer pack, whatever it was, costs so much? What do you get for your $999? I was expecting something free to download to developer members. --As for

[OT] Re: FORTH

2005-06-07 Thread Walt Pawley
On 6/8/05 6:54 AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote on [OT] Re: FORTH I was just wondering what the magic was that you saw in FORTH. My understanding is that it is a very low level language. Gee. I must have missed this one! One upon a time, I worked with Forth quite a bit, even developing a few

James J Stadler/US/DNY is out of the office.

2005-06-07 Thread James . Stadler
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Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread emoy
Hi Randal (I'm going to be on the panel that Randal will be speaking at). Let me say that PyObjC (the python equivalent to CamelBones) is getting a lot of attention recently, and the Python on Mac OS X session at WWDC on Wednesday morning talks a good deal about PyObjC (I also maintain