Re: sudo and cpan

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On May 6, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Joel Rees wrote: When you have perl 5.6 as the system perl (/usr/bin) and perl 5.8 as a parallel install in /usr/local/bin, you want to set your user's path to put /usr/local/bin in front of /usr/bin before you run cpan, so cpan doesn't get confused, right? The

Re: Perl compiler?

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Mar 20, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote: Subject: Re: Perl compiler? Is there such an animal? And is it GNU-ed? Perl 5.005 and later ship with a perlcc script and the supporting infrastructure to make binary executable files out of perl scripts. Most people's opinion of it

Re: Perl compiler?

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Mar 20, 2004, at 8:46 PM, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote: On Mar 20, 2004, at 20:35, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: Perl 5.005 and later ship with a perlcc script and the supporting infrastructure to make binary executable files out of perl scripts. [stuff deleted] Wow - what a bummer. Time for me

Re: Perl compiler?

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Mar 20, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: If you're concerned with performance and want to drop to a lower-level language to improve it, first use the Benchmark module to find out where the bottleneck really is. It's amazing how many developers skip this simple step, flailing about

Re: Web servers with cable DSL

2004-03-16 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: And then you get into the whole evil backlash issue - most AUP's (including my DSL provider, Verizon) include verbiage that says just because we didn't tell you to knock it off, doesn't mean we allow it - the very fact that they block

Re: permission denied during open

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Feb 1, 2004, at 8:59 AM, timothy driscoll wrote: I thought perl ran as nobody, so giving r/w access to 'nobody' should work. but obviously it doesn't - so what did I do wrong? Perl runs as the user that invokes the script (except for one specific circumstance called setuid, but lets ignore

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Dec 29, 2003, at 8:36 PM, Jeff Lowrey wrote: At 4:01 PM -0600 12/29/03, Andy Lester wrote: So if it matters in the future, go right ahead and refactor it. The change is minor. Barring that, write the code that is most clear. The first two versions are always throw aways. Is that because of

Re: get contents from clipboard

2003-12-14 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Dec 14, 2003, at 9:15 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: pbpaste, as a tool, does not allow tor an argument for selecting which information type is to be selected. The pbpaste command seems to know about three types, ascii, postscript, and rtf, and by default it will try to retrieve the clipboard in

Re: CPAN broken in Panther

2003-11-27 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Nov 27, 2003, at 1:54 AM, Chris Devers wrote: In any case, I've had no CPAN problems on two different machines running Panther. Is you first choice CPAN site set to use FTP or HTTP?

Re: Rendezvous in Perl

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:11:19PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: Chris Nandor writes: Download Rendzevous source from Apple's Public Source site. Run SWIG on it. Enjoy. ;-) That isn't very portable beyond OS X :-) There's a Python implementation of zeroconf being developed: The mDNS

Re: advanced stdout/stderr capturing?

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:43:51PM -0800, Nathan Herring wrote: One of my desired goals is to replace STDERR and STDOUT in such a way that 1) the command line user still sees them both, and as they are output (not strangely buffered) 2) I have a log of every snippit of STDERR and STDOUT with

Re: OS Poll

2002-09-23 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:40:44PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: for example -- but the system feels *a lot* less stable to me than 10.1 did, I've seen kernel panics for the first time in almost a year, But Chris, the new kernel panic display was so much improved, you called co-workers over to

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-23 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:02:22PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: Apple Corporation doesn't make celebrities out of its employees. O'Reilly, on the other hand, loves to make stars out of its authors. (or to make its authors see stars, depending on how well they write :-) Apple'sInside

Re: Anyone know what Perl Jaguar is coming with?

2002-08-15 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:18:24AM -0400, Erik Price wrote: I could be totally off base, but doesn't the env utility provide functionality to solve this issue? I don't use env so I could be wrong, but I -thought- that I had read somewhere that #!/usr/bin/env perl The existance of, and

Re: Cocoa interfaces

2001-09-17 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: On 17 Sep 2001 the voices made Ask Bjoern Hansen write: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilfredo sánchez) writes: Apple has an internal Perl-ObjC bridge which I've been asking them to release but they've been sitting on it and