Re: h2xs makemaker

2001-03-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:09:17PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: whilst getting to grips with h2xs this week (which is nowhere near as scary as i thought) I read a really good tutorial on building perl modules that started with: 1) use h2xs 2) use h2xs 3) USE H2XS I think it twas in

Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Roger Burton West
This strikes me as something that needs a perl module... anyone feeling particularly bored and like playing with XS? ]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/) ] by Martin Pool (http://freshmeat.net/users/bootswork/) ] ]librsync makes the network-delta functions of the popular rsync

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-12 Thread Philip Newton
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: MBM (runs away very fast from ever having to touch a piece of code by the now infamous Matt Wright ever again...) That reminds me of something I saw on the weekend: http://neptune.nildram.co.uk/users/cgi.php3 , last paragraph: "For your convienience, we

Re: Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Roger Burton West sent the following bits through the ether: This strikes me as something that needs a perl module... anyone feeling particularly bored and like playing with XS? ]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/) I was *sure* something like this was already on CPAN[1].

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, you wrote: http://neptune.nildram.co.uk/users/cgi.php3 , last paragraph: "For your convienience, we have a public CGI directory available to all our Unix hosting customers. included is FormMail, the industry-standard form-to-email processor."

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:24:10 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oreillynet.com/ DJ Adams, yet another famous London Perl Monger! With a photo as well no less. Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a

Re: Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:31:09AM +, Leon Brocard typed: Roger Burton West sent the following bits through the ether: ]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/) I was *sure* something like this was already on CPAN[1]. H. I still don't really see what advantages having

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Dean wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:39:43AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: suggestion for website: How about a page of our acheivments? ie CPAN modules, Books, credits, talks and drinking feats? If you were going to do this shouldn't they just go under the

Re: Autoconf Magic

2001-03-12 Thread Dean
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:23:04AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: Anybody know anything about doing autoconf stuff (for a C makefile, sad but it's necessary) or know any good place to look? Not personally but i have this in my bookmark list:

Re: Autoconf Magic

2001-03-12 Thread Simon Wistow
Dean wrote: Not personally but i have this in my bookmark list: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html Seems to be the ticket - I only needit for very quick stuff - compiling and installing a .so and a program linked about it. Will have a look at that page and other

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
On Sat Mar 10 08:30:53 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:48:16AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... Heh! "The use of the beer glass image in association with

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Dave Cross
At 10:39 12/03/2001, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:24:10 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oreillynet.com/ DJ Adams, yet another famous London Perl Monger! With a photo as well no less. Not just _any_

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:39 12/03/2001, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:24:10 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oreillynet.com/ DJ Adams, yet another famous London Perl Monger! With

Version control

2001-03-12 Thread David Cantrell
There's been a bit of discussion about version control on the IRC channel. Summary of discussion: CVS and RCS both suck, they just suck in different ways, and subversion is vapourware which doesn't even promise to overcome the problems in CVS/RCS. But there are alternatives. Does anyone here

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Andy Williams
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: There's been a bit of discussion about version control on the IRC channel. Summary of discussion: CVS and RCS both suck, they just suck in different ways, and subversion is vapourware which doesn't even promise to overcome the problems in CVS/RCS.

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Mar 12 16:57:09 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:28:42AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, you wrote: http://neptune.nildram.co.uk/users/cgi.php3 , last paragraph: "For your convienience, we have a public CGI directory available to all our Unix hosting customers. included is

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ah, but you never were at any of the early meetings when Randal was still drinking... :) bah, you don't catch us resting on historical laurels - such as the time Stowe set up the TVR Jug train, or the time we had that little incident with the

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Rogaski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: An entity claiming to be Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : bah, you don't catch us resting on historical laurels - such as the : time Stowe set up the TVR Jug train, or the time we had that little : incident with the toilet seat, no

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: I think you missed the obvious absurdity of the US claiming prior art when it came to _beer_. Just beer in relation to perl dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Well, sure, being a

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, you wrote: well .. to be fair .. yes its appalling Perl but it works, and it IS the industry standard if only because there is nothing better freely available. Maybe I missed a meeting again, but doesn't the "industry" tend to refuse the standardness of

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:18:53PM +, Dave Cross wrote: At 20:18 12/03/2001, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: I think you missed the obvious absurdity of the US claiming prior art when it came to _beer_. Just beer in relation to perl

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 20:18 12/03/2001, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: I think you missed the obvious absurdity of the US claiming prior art when it came to _beer_. Just beer in relation to perl You _do_ realise