Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Ed S. Peschko
hmm.. So -- ruby uses 'native' signals on win32 and perl rolls it own? Is that the major issue? Too bad.. it would be awfully nice to be able to 'borrow' any APIs that ruby folks write, and roll them up into CPAN. Anyways, apparently HttpWatch has a generic COM interface (not a ruby-only)

Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Ed S. Peschko
hmm.. So -- ruby uses 'native' signals on win32 and perl rolls it own? Is that the major issue? Too bad.. it would be awfully nice to be able to 'borrow' any APIs that ruby folks write, and roll them up into CPAN. Anyways, apparently HttpWatch has a generic COM interface (not a ruby-only)

Re: Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ed S. Peschko wrote: In particular, it looks like Win32::Setupsup and Win32::SAM are both sort of orphaned modules that are fairly essential to controlling internet explorer in a fine, granularized way (ie: firing up IE and populating both main windows and closing

Re: Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Ed S. Peschko
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:39:46PM -0500, Randy Kobes wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ed S. Peschko wrote: In particular, it looks like Win32::Setupsup and Win32::SAM are both sort of orphaned modules that are fairly essential to controlling internet explorer in a fine, granularized way (ie:

Re: Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Ed S. Peschko
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:39:46PM -0500, Randy Kobes wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ed S. Peschko wrote: In particular, it looks like Win32::Setupsup and Win32::SAM are both sort of orphaned modules that are fairly essential to controlling internet explorer in a fine, granularized way (ie:

Re: Orphaned modules (was: compiling Inline::Ruby on win32)

2007-08-10 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Ed S. Peschko wrote: In particular, it looks like Win32::Setupsup and Win32::SAM are both sort of orphaned modules that are fairly essential to controlling internet explorer in a fine, granularized way (ie: firing up IE and populating both main windows and closing