Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread Joel Rees
Gah! That's what I get for using comments! ;-) Darn right, stop that! Code is hard to write, it should be hard to read, too! ;-) 8-) That's what I like about perl. Anyway, I'm aware that slice is not a function, just surprised that neither the concept nor the syntax seems to get any treatmen

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 16, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Joel Rees wrote: So, I'm wondering about that version number. 5.8.1 is still the latest stable Perl, right? No, 5.8.3 is the latest. sherm--

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread David Wheeler
On Apr 16, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: So, I'm wondering about that version number. 5.8.1 is still the latest stable Perl, right? No, 5.8.3 is the latest. And 5.8.4 will likely be out within a week. Regards, David

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread Joel Rees
So, I'm wondering about that version number. 5.8.1 is still the latest stable Perl, right? No, 5.8.3 is the latest. And 5.8.4 will likely be out within a week. So, given an iBook that is going to host my personal site, should I load 5.8.3 parallel to the the 5.6 in Mac OS 10.2, or should I stick

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote: So, given an iBook that is going to host my personal site, should I load 5.8.3 parallel to the the 5.6 in Mac OS 10.2, or should I stick with 5.8.1? I'm a bit puzzled about that "stick with 5.8.1" phrase - on 10.2, there's no pre-installed 5.8.1 to

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-16 Thread David Wheeler
On Apr 16, 2004, at 8:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote: (Purpose of the parallel load is to keep the one used by the system more-or-less pristine, of course. Purpose of 5.8 is Unicode and large character sets.) If your making much us of Unicode, you should absolutely run the latest 5.8.x. Regards, Davi

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote: > In fact, unless you're in a *huge* hurry, I'd say wait a week and go > with 5.8.4. I thought even numbered point releases were unstable, test releases. Is that not the case? -- Chris Devers

re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Apr 17, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Chris Devers wrote: I thought even numbered point releases were unstable, test releases. The other way around. The odd numbered releases are the development track. (When you try to run some script against them, something goes wrong and you say "oh, that seems odd!")

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote: >> In fact, unless you're in a *huge* hurry, I'd say wait a week and go >> with 5.8.4. Chris> I thought even numbered point releases were unstable, test releases. Chris> Is that not the cas

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-17 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Andrew M. Langmead wrote: > On Apr 17, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Chris Devers wrote: > > >>I thought even numbered point releases were unstable, test releases. >> > > > The other way around. The odd numbered releases are the development > track. (When you try to run some script against them, somethin

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-18 Thread David Wheeler
On Apr 17, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Wrong. Ponie is off the chart, or maybe more like 5.11, That's one louda, innit?

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-18 Thread Joel Rees
On 2004.4.17, at 11:45 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: It's the 5.9.x track that has the experimentation. 5.8.x (like 5.6.x before it) are for slightly-behind-bleeding-edge adopters. Hardcore trailing edge adopters are still using Perl4 (which is also an even number :). So, on Tuesday's, when I'm i

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-18 Thread Joseph Alotta
Hi Joel, I know where you can get an AS400 for the taking. Then you can really hack away like old times. Maybe you can find a card reader for it? Joe. On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On 2004.4.17, at 11:45 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: It's the 5.9.x track that has the experiment

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-19 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
David Wheeler wrote: > On Apr 17, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > >>Wrong. Ponie is off the chart, or maybe more like 5.11, > > > That's one louda, innit? I just wonder who's the drummer. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special

Re: Suggested version for Mac OS X.2?

2004-04-19 Thread David Wheeler
On Apr 18, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: That's one louda, innit? I just wonder who's the drummer. Let's just keep Arthur away from thunderstorms, shall we? ;-) David