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

2003-10-02 Thread Barry Treahy, Jr.
Craig Berry wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2003, at 03:47PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Craig Berry wrote: IIRC, part of the problem with CPAN may be that external utilities also need additional tweaking. For example, you may need a version of gunzip that does command-l

Compress:Zlib 1.22 on OpenVMS

2003-10-02 Thread Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser
Hello Paul, I've not only got a problem, I might also have a solution;-) Environment is Perl 5.8.1, Compress::Zlib 1.22, OpenVMS Alpha 7.3, Compaq C V6.5. Using the Kit with a properly configured config.in I get $ perl Makefile.PL Parsing config.in... Looks Good. Can't rename t/01version.t to t

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

2003-10-02 Thread Craig Berry
On Thursday, October 02, 2003, at 03:47PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Craig Berry wrote: >>IIRC, part of the problem with CPAN may be that external utilities also need >>additional tweaking. For example, you may need a version of gunzip that does >>command-line redirection

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

2003-10-02 Thread Barry Treahy, Jr.
Craig Berry wrote: Thanks for your efforts to get CPAN working. You'll want to have a look at Chuck Lane's VMS::FileUtils module that creates ODS-2 safe names, among other things: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CL/CLANE/VMS-FileUtils_0.014.tar.gz Thanks, I'll take a look at it this

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

2003-10-02 Thread Barry Treahy, Jr.
Dan Sugalski wrote: 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

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

2003-10-02 Thread Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser
> From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Craig Berry" 2-OCT-2003 17:37:35.55 > Subj: RE: Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?) Hello, the kit for the freeware CD can be found at http://zinser.no-ip.info:8080/www/fw/ I am connected via Cable, so feel free to help yourself ;-) I ca

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

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Craig Berry wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 01, 2003, at 12:57PM, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Also, if anyone has a FTP server with some good bandwidth that could > >host the builds, that'd be great. > > CPAN/ports sounds like a good idea. How does one go about

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

2003-10-02 Thread Craig Berry
On Wednesday, October 01, 2003, at 12:57PM, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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?) I believe Martin Zinsser has a kit that has been submitted for the fre