Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL

2001-04-24 Thread Ken Williams
a big fan of the GPL, but I don't think this particular thing is an issue. --- --- Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity [EMAIL PROTECTED]The Math Forum

Re: Fwd: perl@10517 (Fail)

2001-06-11 Thread Ken Williams
ts ("I32_MIN='"STRINGIFY(I32_MIN)"'"); > return 0; >} > >in your perl build directory please. I see this on ARM Linux: > >../testit >I32_MIN='(-2147483647-1)' > >which looks like a sensible way to get -2147483648 I see this on O

Re: local ties?

2002-01-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 06:44 PM, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:47:46AM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: >> What should this code print? > > a. > Why? Can you justify it? If a. is the behavior, it renders the DESTROY method useless. The 'perltie' manpage says:

About the Module::Build project

2002-11-20 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, I'm Module::Build. You may remember me from such P5P posts as "Thoughts From TPC: New Modules In 5.9" [ http://makeashorterlink.com/?O28C32182 ] "Builds, YAML, etc etc etc" [ http://makeashorterlink.com/?I59C21182 ] "Re: Proof-of-concept patch for 'make distsign'" [ http:/

Incorporate File::Spec 0.58 into blead?

2003-07-22 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, I've just released File::Spec 0.85 to CPAN: The uploaded file File-Spec-0.85.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/File-Spec-0.85.tar.gz size: 28682 bytes md5: 10bd668beb9f256442e5399074e4fb1c Changes since 0.84: - File::Spec::Mac->case_tolerant() re

Re: perl562@20985 [PATCH MakeMaker]

2003-09-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 06:54 AM, Orton, Yves wrote: The best dictionary of known $^O values that I know of is in File::Spec. Actually, I think a better dictionary is in Module::Build, in the top-level module. Dunno. I think its moot if Ken implements this in File::Spec. He can use $

Final spec for File::Spec->abs2rel()

2003-09-11 Thread Ken Williams
Howdy. There's been a lot of discussion over the past few days about what File::Spec->abs2rel($file, $base) should do when the $base volume differs from the $file volume, or when the $base volume is unknown. I'd like to lay out a summary of the current documented behavior, and a proposal for c

ANNOUNCE: Module::Build 0.26 -> CPAN

2004-10-09 Thread Ken Williams
Hi all, I've just uploaded Module::Build 0.26 to CPAN and Sourceforge. This is a major new release, coming three betas and half a year after 0.25. file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.26.tar.gz size: 122353 bytes md5: bba1994a3db2a53401d45cf69c25347a Now that 0.26 is out

Re: ANNOUNCE: Module::Build 0.26 -> CPAN

2004-10-09 Thread Ken Williams
On Oct 9, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Ken Williams wrote: Now that 0.26 is out the door, development for the next release will focus on the following (as well as miscellaneous smaller features and fixes): [...] * Get rid of all the C-compiling/linking code in M::B and rely on ExtUtils::ParseXS Er, I