> Hello, > I am in contact with Hoff about submitting a few entries for the upcoming > freeware CD. While discussing the feasability of getting some Perl Modules > on it, we finally came to the conclusion that it would be best to have a > full Perl Build on the CD. Given the fact that the deadline for submissions > is looming I tend to do a 5.8.0 build with a number of integrated modules. > This opens two questions I hope you can help me with:
> 1.) The list of modules I work with can be found at > http://zinser.no-ip.info:8080/www/vms/sw/perl_mod.htmlx > Are there any essentials/must-haves/really cool ones missing that > I still should try to get up and running? I'm not clear to me whether DBI is now part of the PERL core. (I run 5.6.1 from Craig's pre-built version, and DBI was included in that. CGI is part of core and you list it, so I'm not sure ...) Anyway, must have DBI. (I don't think it's practical to incorporate Dbd::Rdb, Dbd::MySQL, Dbd::Oracle unless you're actually running those databases, but it would be nice to have Perl work with all those out of the box.) Lib::Chart would be nice. > 2.) hp requires someone to sign a release form for each piece of software > on the CD (check http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/freeware/ for details). > Now I might be preparing the kit for the CD, but I am certainly not > one of the VMS Perl core developers. So, there are a number of possibilites > - I still sign the form, but qualify myself as something along the > lines of "Member of the VMS Perl community" Ought to be fine. > - A more appropriate person (Craig, Peter, ???) volunteers to either > sign the form alone or co-signs with me. (I'd nominate Dan Sugalski as the closest thing to official there is in the Perl world -- but your doing it ought to be fine.) > - The general consensus is the document should not be signed by me and > nobody else wants to do it either, i.e. drop Perl from the CD. This part of the general consensus is opposed to that. Thanks for your hard work. -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
