There's a project I'm working on (Paperboy RSS) that's
written in C, the simplest part of which is basically
applying XSLT to files with libxml2/libxslt. There's a
separate but related project written in Perl that's
going to use paperboy to do the heavy lifting but
needs to be able to let users
--- Edward Moy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what is really needed at this
point is for the CamelBones community to get
together and innovate.
Create some killer apps with CamelBones. Get
developer excited about
this technology.
I'll bite.
Dunno if it'd count as killer or not but I
--- Bruce Van Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And you will avoid the stress of combing back
through a program you need
to make secure, trying to find the elusive points
where the -T switch
tenaciously challenges you, an enterprise in which
you may risk losing
your appreciation of logically
--- Bruce Van Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For your use, what you especially want to get from
this example is the use of the Perl character \b,
which outside of regular expressions means
backspace. The point is to print \b the same
number of times as the number of characters you
want to
(Replying to all the messages in one)
I guess right now I'm mainly looking for a good (to a
certain extent, read: dedicated) XML editor and
haven't yet encountered one for OSX. Aside form the
standard text editor features, the two biggest
things I'm looking for are automatic (via keystroke)
--- John Delacour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:46 am -0700 3/10/04, wren argetlahm wrote:
So, in my infinite (lack of) wisdom I've decided
that it might be good to write my own.
Have you considered Alpha?
http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/
I have not, this is the first I've heard
I apologize in advance for the off-topic nature of
this posting. I've recently been lamenting the
shortcomings of my current text editor for my purposes
(SubEthaEdit since my copy of BBEdit is Classic and a
new one costs way to much for my budget). I did a
quick google search to try and find out
--- Chris Devers wrote:
--- Joel Rees wrote:
I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy
to just look at with
a text editor (formatting off, of course).
Yeah, they're both just text and (pretty) easily
readable. The problem comes in that I don't want to
stop using AddressBook and so
--- Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might be interested in this page, entitled
Import Address Book
records into to Thunderbird :
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769
When I googled for thunderbird and address,
trying to learn what
thunderbird was,
I've recently started messing around with Thunderbird.
I like it a bunch but I'm wondering if there's any
good way to port over my Address Book, with perl or
otherwise.
I've tried exporting from AB (as .vcf, the only
option) then importing in Thunderbird (.vcf isn't one
of the formats listed that
--- John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I just thought I'd get the opinions of the list
on the best way to set up such a brand-new machine
-- do you
partition your hard-drives? Do you have the system
on one
partition and documents on another and so on? Any
issues
around the
I have a perl script (modified from one of Chris
Nandor's) that I run as a background-process/daemon
via fork(). Now I know I can use kill to end it, but I
was wondering if there was a way that I can catch the
SIGTERM to do one last thing before quitting? It looks
like it should already do this,
--- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 19:15 +0100 2004.07.21, John Delacour wrote:
I presumed that by running
cpan install Mac::Glue
all prerequisites would be installed by cpan in
order to enable me to
install and use it.
Yes, unless you specifically tell the CPAN shell to
not do
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I seem to recall
sometime fairly recently (less than a year, more than
a few weeks) someone mentioned a way to autofind the
path to perl on the shebang line so you don't need to
hardcode the path. I can't seem to find the post in
the archives. Does any one remember
It seems to be working fine eventually but I'v noticed
that I've started getting this error when I run CPAN:
LWP failed with code[500]
message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: connect: Invalid
argument]
I was wondering what might be causing that?
~wren
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--- Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that the Perl executable may be located in
any of several places, hard-coding a path into
the shebang line isn't all that great an idea.
The following will always give you the version
of perl that comes first on your search path:
--- Thane Norton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The complete official answer can be found
here:
Wow that's a long URL. Thanks a bundle* for it though,
it has what I was looking for (which was localizing
some of my folder names rather than localizing apps).
~wren
* pardoning the pun ;)
I have an account on my box that has Japanese set as
the default language and I noticed that certain files
get automagically renamed into Japanese (e.g. various
Apple programs in /Applications). I also noticed that
this is blocked if I change the name of the app (e.g.
from iTunes to iTunes 4.5).
--- Charles Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can also indicate this file using a header
along the lines of:
link rel=icon href=/favicon.png
type=image/png
While on that thought and keeping it perl related, how
would one make that sort of a tag from CGI.pm under
the $CGI-start_html()
--- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got two scripts that do it. happening is a
script that updates your
iChat status, and np.pl is an X-Chat Aqua script
Thanks a bundle. I've figured out generally what
`happening` is doing, though the details of the
Mac::Glue stuff'll take a bit
I was wondering if there was a good way to get
information about the currently playing song in
iTunes? Browsing through CPAN all I could find were
modules for controlling iTunes (play, pause, etc) with
a few assorted other commands (make new playlist, etc
~wren
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I just installed Perl 5.8.3 per the instructions on
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html.
They worked as advertised up until the end when I
type:
% perl -v
and it comes up with the default v5.6.0 built for
Darwin. Where did I go wrong?
~wren
--- Adrian Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try
/usr/local/bin/perl -v
to check that it installed okay.
Yeah, I was hoping to keep the system's perl untouched
(having heard horror stories). That did it, thanks :)
~wren
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So I finally made the switch from MacPerl to Perl
5.8.3 on OSX (10.2.8) and I can't seem to get things
working quite right. I'm having problems using
modules.
% perl -I ~/lib script.pl
#!perl
use module;
...(or moral equivalent) works fine but:
% ./script.pl
#!perl -I ~/lib
use module;
...and:
--- Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you *sure* that's the error you're getting?
the actual shebang line is:
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -I ~/Library/Perl
The error is:
Can't locate WREN/Numbers.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
~/Library/Perl [...snip...]) at ./t.plx line 3.
BEGIN
--- Doug McNutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I worry that the ~/ convention for the home
directory is a shell convention. In the first
case it is expanded by the shell while in the
other cases it's expanded by perl. Does perl
honor the option? When you say @INC is properly
modified is the
In my efforts to get Perl5.8.3 all set up I tried
installing Mac::Carbon via the CPAN shell. But it just
enters a loop of running the test files (unless I
don't do what the dialog boxes say, in which case the
make fails). What am I doing wrong?
~wren
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Do you
--- Jason F.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using OS X Server 10.2.8, Upgraded to 10.3
Server Since I upgraded to 10.3 I have not been
able to get Perl to work.
Others on the list will be able to give you a much
better answer than I but, I believe the problem is
that you need to install the
I'm a newbie to Perl on *nix and am in the process of
converting from MacPerl to OSX and I've just recently
downloaded the developer tools for OSX10.2 because I
was under the impression that they're necessary to
really use Perl on OSX (i.e. to use CPAN, Camel Bones,
etc). But installing the
Thanks everyone for the information, especially Chris
Devers for the suggestions on how to crop things out.
I just realized that the *.dmg file for the dev tools
is on my startup drive, so if I move that to another
drive it should free up enough space if I don't
install the documentation.
~wren
Installing the dev tools has done horrible things to
my computer. The drive says it has 80MB or so left,
but most every program I run complains about the disk
being full and won't run; including trying to burn CDs
to back things up before repartitioning it all. Is
there any way to uninstall the
I've come up with an idea for an object oriented
module and am making it in order to learn a bit more
about objects and OOP. I've run into a strange problem
that I can't figure out why what's happening is
happening. I'm trying to copy part of a data structure
from one position in the object to
--- Thilo Planz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a problem of context.
That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure off-hand how.
Thanks for the insight (you too Charlie). I had it set
up as $scalar=$ref initially but that introduced some
major problems that took a while to hunt down-- namely
that it
--- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you need to handle ambiguities? For example,
-ough can famously be pronounced several ways:
The way it's set up now can't deal with them, but I'm
about to rewrite the thing to handle more than one
segment having the same orthographic representation.
I'm working on a linguistic module and I'm trying to
find a good way to split a string up into segments.
I can't assume single charecter strings and want to
assume maximal segments. As an example, the word
church would be rendered as the list ('ch', 'u',
'r', 'ch') and wouldn't break the ch up
--- Bill Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need to get a book on regex's.
I know the solution lies in regex's, the problem is
that I can't quite figure out a generic enough way of
doing it. The problem is for a module and so the list
of valid segments is user defined. I guess I could do
--- Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is because 'return undef;' is good, but
'return;' is better. It
returns the correct, context dependent
representation of false.
That seems to have fixed my problem, but I'm not sure
why it works. My error($error) is now something to
the effect
I've recently discovered the joys of return undef; for
error catching, but I'm having problems when the
subroutine returns a hash (unless there's an error).
Something like the following:
%hash = subroutine($input) or error($error);
returns the expected odd number of elements in hash
assignment
--- Charlie Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm no expert ( I'd love to hear from one). But
when I need to do something
similar I use a second data structure for doing the
'reverse lookup'.
I thought about that, but was put off by the fact that
it's a complex structure-- of course I'm only
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