Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
all i'm saying is, it isn't a nessecary to pollute a PC with perl,
just because the installer needs it.
Don't think of it as pollution; think of it as the ultimate upgrade for VBscript. It lets you write stuff for your logon scripts (or whatever) using an almost-sane language.
OK, so not everyone sees it that way. I have no objection to patches,
as long as the behavior is optional and the default is what we do now.
That would seem very acceptable : )
you sure you want to make that bet? My C drive was up until recently 8gb. 5gb for my D drive, the rest is a my linux partition.
It's like having all these services running that I'll never use
anyway. Personally, I don't like that ; ).
But it's not a service; the only resource it consumes is disk space.
I bet you already never use 90% of the stuff on your disk.
I did upgrade it to 16gb's cause all these games are getting so huge. My win98 install used to be around 60mb for ages. My win2k install I try to keep around 200mb. A 60mb Perl installation does seem quite a lot now doesn't it : ). All I can say litepc.com made a descent tool!
I realize unattended is really aimed toward cooperations, and perl as a VB replacement does seem like a _very_ good idea. (But then let it install into c:\progra~1\perl and get it neatly tugged away :) ). I use it however to reinstall my boxen fast. All I use windows for is to do the absolutly unvmwareable. (is that a word?) which are 90% of the time games.
I did hope they didn't use the registry. And enviroment variables are still commonly used even on w32. (path, temp etc vars) Now I do agree that we don't want ALL apps polluting the enviroment (in dos you didn't have so much memspace for it).Patches, well the first question would be, does perl even run from a
different directory. I have heard a while ago perl MUST be in
C:\perl. I doubt that perl uses registry settings, so that would be a
big plus, also I doubt they use any 'special' dll's So it _should_ be
possible. If I can find the answer to this question, as soon as I find
some time, I could supply patches : )
Go for it. But Perl does use the registry; it has to find its library files somehow. On Unix this is a hard-coded path. On Win32, it is in HKLM\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActivePerl\<version>. You might be able to get away with setting the PERL5LIB (or PERLLIB) environment variable to "Z:\perl" or whatever first.
I _hope_ the perl developers where sane, and took an approach where they check both and one should be enough. That way you could use the enviroment variable, and not worry about the registry beeing filled with uselessness : )
If you find yourself facing any non-trivial design choices, please airSince i have very little time, and no perl knowledge, it won't happen any time soon : ) Maybe this will be a good oppertunity to start getting familiar with perl. I am a CS student, so it shouldn't be an issue though.
them for discussion here.
Thanks!
- Pat
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