At 12:27 PM 1/21/01 +0900, KIMURA Takeshi wrote:
>Well, I started the port after your first mail, but now I am
>stuck in a trouble and running out of time.
>
>There remains "a problem with reading regular data and gzipped
>data from the same filehandle" which was mentioned in Chris's
>port. I followed with my debugger, but no good result.
>
>Another problem is in gzreadline. It is described in the pod;
>
>At this time gzreadline ignores the variable $/ ($INPUT_RECORD_
>SEPARATOR or $RS when English is in use). The end of a line is
>denoted by the C character '\n'.
>
>and, It works like this in Chris's port, but not in my case. The
>end of line has to be '\012' which is verry suffering on MacPerl.
>
>I am missing something for sure, but time is up for a while.
>
>I might be back on porting in a couple of days.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Takeshi
Hi, Takeshi
Once you solve this problem I'd be interested in getting your feedback on
the state of the current MacPerl + XS tutorial. Also Thomas Wegner's
feedback, and anyone else who has tried out the process. I understand from
Alan (Fry, my co-author) that he remains equally interested in seeing this
tutorial (and the processes described) refreshed and updated. I don't have a
problem with other folks improving a first edition and making it something
better.
Just in case anyone is interested (MacPerl stalwarts might be) I had to
abandon my rusty PowerMac 6100/60 back at the end of '99. I gave it to my
Dad - he is still happy with it. The overriding factor was MacOS support for
Java (lack thereof), and the fact that the best Linux distros are on Intel.
No value judgment - that's just how it is.
In any case I have been following the progress of MacPerl, and it's not
impossible that I might get another Mac some day. I also recognize that
there is going to be a large non-MacOS X community out there for a while,
and so our XS/SWIG efforts make sense. I've been looking at running gcc on
Intel Linux (Mandrake) as a PPC cross-compiler, and if I make that work with
Perl XS I'll furnish the modules list with the details. My Dad's 6100 still
has MacPerl on it for testing. Little does he know... :-)
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
Fairly Senior Software Type
e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com)
Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia
