Re: Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?)

2003-10-01 Thread schwern
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:48:08PM -0700, Brad Hughes wrote: > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Also, if anyone has a FTP server with some good bandwidth that could > > host the builds, that'd be great. > > Shouldn't CPAN be the place for ported builds, what with it being > comprehensive and all... That

Re: Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?)

2003-10-01 Thread Jeremy Begg
Hello Dan, With 5.8.1 out, does anyone have a build of it that's fit to go up for downloads? (With a set of modules prebuilt and installed and all?) Not yet, I've been waiting for someone to announce such a beast :-) Also, if anyone has a FTP server with some good bandwidth that could host the bu

Re: Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?)

2003-10-01 Thread Brad Hughes
Dan Sugalski wrote: Also, if anyone has a FTP server with some good bandwidth that could host the builds, that'd be great. Shouldn't CPAN be the place for ported builds, what with it being comprehensive and all... Can we (meaning someone other than me) put builds in /pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ports/VMS o

Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?)

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
With 5.8.1 out, does anyone have a build of it that's fit to go up for downloads? (With a set of modules prebuilt and installed and all?) Also, if anyone has a FTP server with some good bandwidth that could host the builds, that'd be great. Right now the upstream link from ftp.sidhe.org's only

Re: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

2003-10-01 Thread Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser
Hi Barry, if you do start to work on gzip, drop me a note. Hunter and I invested some effort to get the current development version of gzip (1.3.5) up to speed and to incorporate the private VMS specific changes (aka 1.2.4b). I will make our current working kit available to you. Greetings, Marti

Re: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

2003-10-01 Thread Craig Berry
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:34PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I understand (aka guess) properly, at run time the default calls to >VMS::Filespec are basically being redirected to hardcoded C by way of >the newXSproto calls, which might explain why my debug stat