On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:39:49PM -0700, Gary Funck wrote:
> 
> Just curious - why isn't Razor2 implemented as a better/faster upgrade from
> Razor1? Are there incompatibilities?  Is the user base so large that they
> couldn't be converted over to Razor2 in a not-too-painful fashion?  

They are two completely different systems, and apart from the config
creation stuff that is different in Razor2, Razor2 is a drop in
replacement for Razor1.

> I found the Razor1 (actually, it's just called Mail::Audit::Razor on
> CPAN, or is that simply a front-end to Razor?) and Razor2 distinction to
> be confusing.

It's a front-end to Razor1.

> Okay thanks for the tip. I did finally get around to reading the INSTALL
> file, and this step is well-described there:
> 
> 
> 1. Download the latest v2 razor-agents tarball from
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3978
> 
> 2. Download the latest v2 razor-agents-sdk tarball from
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3978
>    Untar and run:
> 
>             perl Makefile.PL
>             make
>             make test
>             make install
> [...]
> 
> As a suggestion, I think placing the INSTALL instructions on the Source
> Forge site would be helpful.

They are on the site: http://razor.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html
 
> See above. Also, keep in mind that I did first try installing/running
> Razor1, apparently without doing all the necessary setup steps.

I'll try to reproduce this here.

> Hmmm, this seems a surprising place to put such information. Do all CPAN
> Perl installs do this?  I'd have expected /etc maybe, or /share, but I can
> see how they might be NFS-mounted or some such, thus obscuring the
> definition of "the system".

Yes, all CPAN modules do this... It's built into MakeMaker.

cheers,
vipul. 

-- 

Vipul Ved Prakash          |   "The future is here, it's just not 
Software Design Artist     |    widely distributed."
http://vipul.net/          |              -- William Gibson



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