Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-27 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, such as sharing code between Windows and Unix perl over NFS Uh, I do this for years and ActiveState Perl doesn't seem to have any problem with my Unix files. Where exactly is the problem? *puzzled* (Granted, I never used Mac OS, but I got a report

OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Ray Zimmerman
for Perl development on OS X, of course :-) CVS client: I really like Mac CVS Pro, and have been using it under OS 9 and OS X as my CVS client. Now, as I'm moving more exclusively to OS X with it's command-line cvs, and with the release of BBEdit 7 with it's cvs integration, I'd really

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Pete Prodoehl
This may (or may not) work for you, I wrote a script to do a diff with two files via the command line, and if they really are different, it opens them both in BBEdit. It's here: http://zymm.com/raster/code/src/diffem_pl.txt Pete Ray Zimmerman wrote: for Perl development on OS X, of

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Peder Axensten
I want to get started with CVS and BBEdit, how to I run a server? There's nothing in the BBEdit manual... Any good sources of info would be appreciated! /Peder

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Correia
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Peder Axensten wrote: I want to get started with CVS and BBEdit, how to I run a server? There's nothing in the BBEdit manual... Any good sources of info would be appreciated! Setting up a server is beyond the scope of the BBEdit manual I'm

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Ray Zimmerman
At 9:08 AM -0500 11/27/02, Jim Correia wrote (regarding my comments on MacCVS Pro): I think the problem is more than line feeds. The repository file gets written out as (this may be wrong since it is from memory) server:blahblahblah for an ssh type repository when the command line cvs expects

OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Puneet Kishor
In the spirit of OT, but keeping with the perl-ish nature of this list... Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are very

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Lou Moran
On Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002, at 12:28 America/New_York, Puneet Kishor wrote: Which brings me to a question. The last edition was 4 years ago. Why not a version 2 with more tips and tricks? I will send advance payment to reserve a copy. I need 2. Where do I send the cash? -- Lou Moran

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Ray Zimmerman
At 9:08 AM -0500 11/27/02, Jim Correia wrote: On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 08:42 AM, Ray Zimmerman wrote: BBEdit diff: I want a bbdiff command-line program. Something that will let me type: bbdiff file1 file2 or bbdiff dir1 dir2 to initiate a file comparison or multi-file

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Nathan Torkington
Puneet Kishor writes: Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are very useful). Most everyday I turn to the cookbook

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Puneet Kishor
Nathan Torkington wrote: Puneet Kishor writes: ... Which brings me to a question. The last edition was 4 years ago. Why not a version 2 with more tips and tricks? I will send advance payment to reserve a copy. ... Anyway, it's all supposed to be out by OSCON next year. Great! Can't

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Nathan Torkington
Puneet Kishor writes: ps. one suggestion -- don't re-put what's already there in version 1 (errata be damned). I want each and every page of version 2 to be new and different from version 1. And here I thought you liked me :-) Sorry, 2ed will be built on top of 1ed, but with every recipe

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote: Puneet Kishor writes: Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are very

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Puneet Kishor
Nathan Torkington wrote: Puneet Kishor writes: ps. one suggestion -- don't re-put what's already there in version 1 (errata be damned). I want each and every page of version 2 to be new and different from version 1. And here I thought you liked me :-) Sorry, 2ed will be built on top of

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:59 PM -0500 11/27/02, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote: \ I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the 5.8 updating (no more with the new in the 5.004 release

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Charles Albrecht
At 1:31 PM -0500 11/27/2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: I don't think you want to wait that long. The cookbook for perl 6 would likely lag behind perl 6's first major release by at least 18 months--it's tough to document useful best practices for a language that's not out yet! I think it'd also be

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Nathan Torkington
Puneet Kishor writes: (hm, that doesn't sound right. I don't even know you. for all I know you might be a mean beastie yourself, even though you've got the photo of baby shirley maclaine on your blog g) Thanks, I think. That is, of course, my baby picture. Partially there in accordance

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Nathan Torkington
Chris Devers writes: Cool. It may be silly to ask, but has there been any thought as to how the release of a Perl Cookbook second edition will coincide with Perl6? Yes. We're not holding up any of the revisions to our Perl books for Perl 6. As we've all learned over the past years, it's

Re: OT praise for the cookbook

2002-11-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
At 1:31 PM -0500 11/27/02, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:59 PM -0500 11/27/02, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote: \ I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the Cool.

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-27 Thread Tels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, On 27-Nov-02 Chris Nandor carved into stone: At 00:03 +0100 2002.11.27, Tels wrote: such as sharing code between Windows and Unix perl over NFS Uh, I do this for years and ActiveState Perl doesn't seem to have any problem with my Unix files. Where

Modules for 5.6.8

2002-11-27 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
Has anybody successfully installed the following modules on a Mac Os 10.2.2 system (I tried on the server OS If that matters). Class::DBI::Extensions Class::DBI::Join I got the other Class::DBI modules installed just fine but these two throw errors in the make. Or how about compiling gd 2.0.8?

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-11-27 Thread Peter N Lewis
BBEdit diff: I want a bbdiff command-line program. Something that will let me type: bbdiff file1 file2 or bbdiff dir1 dir2 to initiate a file comparison or multi-file comparison in BBEdit. Ideally, Bare Bones would include something like this along side the bbedit command-line tool, but I