Re: Not exactly a Perl question

2007-10-26 Thread Michael Barto
Speaking of Solaris and Mac's and multiple OS environments. Solaris 10 is free for X86. It loads really easy in Parallels. There is even a web site where a Solaris Parallels image that is down loadable. Solaris 10 supports a virtualization called Zones (virtual Solaris server). This weekend on

Re: Locale weirdness

2007-10-26 Thread Joel Rees
Responding without thinking, but, On 平成 19/10/24, at 4:44, David Cantrell wrote: As some of you may know, I'm one of the cpan-testers. I recently sent a test failure for Log-Report-0.11 on OS X. The author is most puzzled about what's happening, and once I gave him a guest account he could

Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

2007-10-26 Thread jeremiah
On Oct 19, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:51 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can draw a picture for you: http://finkproject.org/ In which case, your real argument appears

Re: OT: non-perl dependencies (was: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!)

2007-10-26 Thread jeremiah
On Oct 19, 2007, at 4:11 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:06:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do is call `apt-get update` and you have the new packages with dependency handling built in! (Even better than CPAN's because

Re: Not exactly a Perl question

2007-10-26 Thread Shane
On 10/26/07, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do any of you use use VMWare or Parallels to test your stuff on other > distros? Which did you pick to use and why? VMWare w/ CentOS5 as the OS. Mainly because I can take the VM and move it over to the VMWare server (the free one) instance tha

Re: Not exactly a Perl question

2007-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:51:16AM -0400, Robert Hicks wrote: > Do any of you use use VMWare or Parallels to test your stuff on other > distros? Which did you pick to use and why? I use Parallels for both my CPAN-testers stuff and also for testing my own code on Linux and FreeBSD. I also test on

Re: Not exactly a Perl question

2007-10-26 Thread Kee Hinckley
I use vmware to test against Fedora-because that's what our hosting provider uses. That said, I dont really have any need to test the perl related stuff. Its more for other services. Works like a charm though. 4gb MacBook Pro. --- iPhoned

Not exactly a Perl question

2007-10-26 Thread Robert Hicks
Do any of you use use VMWare or Parallels to test your stuff on other distros? Which did you pick to use and why? Robert