abigail [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Blech. Sun didn't force you to run either Linux, or to use a PPC platform.
*>It's your choice, and blaming Sun to screw you doesn't make much sense.
Well, it's the Advocate or Asshole dilemma.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html
The conclusion
Stephen Zander [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Speaking as someone with feet firmly in both camps (I'm a Blackdown
*>member and the Debian maintainer for the jdk and some of the largest
*>perl modules in that distribution), IMNSHO the fatal assumption made
*>by millions of people is that Java is O
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>This is the issue in a nutshell. Let's not mix business issues
*>with technical ones. Let's not mix cluster management with simple
*>end-user installation. Let's not mix businesses losing millions
*>by the microsecond with the guy who just wants his l
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>There's the trick, Solaris is Sun's Blessed Platform. As a
*>Linux/PowerPC user, I know how Ziggy feels. I'm almost totally
*>ignored by Sun and I'd imagine I'd have just as much trouble getting
*>it working as he did.
*>
*>You can almost argue t
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Allow me to clarify: a degenerate case for installing a *single* *specific*
*>version of Perl never requires transfers or temporary disk space measured
*>in quarter gigabytes.
For a single user on a single machine, no, but considering disk space is
chea
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>Nevertheless, a degenerate case for installing Perl never requires
*>transfers or temporary disk space measured in quarter gigabytes.
Sure it can. Sysadmins are frequently asked to keep multiple versions of
Perl around for people who have a tool that wo
abigail [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>What are you suggesting here? God doesn't like elves? There's no place
*>in heaven for hobbits? Everyone is equal in the face of God, except
*>dwarves? Christ doesn't wash the feet of trolls? Jesus didn't die so
*>Gollums sins could be forgiven?
People hag
