Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-03-01 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:28:58PM -0600, Joe Davison wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote: A .pkg is specifically just a distribution of files to be installed using the Installer program. You can add pre- and post- actions to a package (which I should have done for

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-28 Thread Joe Davison
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote: A .pkg is specifically just a distribution of files to be installed using the Installer program. You can add pre- and post- actions to a package (which I should have done for Perl--update your .cshrc to add /usr/local/perl5-8 to the path). The

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-19 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Torkington) wrote: I'm not entirely sure. I think that a previous 5.8 install overwrote some of the 5.5 library (doing a 'configure.gnu --prefix=/blah' still made 5.8 install crap into /Library). hints/darwin.sh overrides the defaults.

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-19 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Puneet Kishor) wrote: fwiw, I am using 10.2.3... I don't have wget. I could be wrong, but I remember something to the effect that wget is not only deprecated in favor of curl but also abolished. As usaul, I culd be wrong. wget was removed

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 6/2/03 1:03, Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg [...] I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE and Omni Web instead of the disk

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Morbus Iff
Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE and Omni Web instead of the disk image. This is the first time this has happened for a long time

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 6/2/03 14:30, Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE and Omni Web instead of the disk image.

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Morbus Iff
wget http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I'm still using 10.1.5: bash2.05 phil@localhost ~ $ whereis wget bash2.05 phil@localhost ~ $ whereis curl /usr/bin/curl Aaah, yeah, I forgot all about that. I hate how they replaced wget with curl - drives me absolutely batty, as curl

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Drew Taylor
At 09:36 PM 2/5/03 -0800, Michael Maibaum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: Now, who is going to do a dmg of Apache / mod_perl / libapreq? :-) We'll be providing .pkg and .mpkgs shortly, and the packages

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Maibaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 07:37 AM, Drew Taylor wrote: At 09:36 PM 2/5/03 -0800, Michael Maibaum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: Now, who is going to

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Nathan Torkington
Drew Taylor writes: Perhaps this is a stupid question, but could someone explain the difference between a disk image (dmg) and a package (pkg)? I know the dmg mounts a virtual drive, but other than that which is better? A .dmg is a file containing a filesystem, kinda like a .iso for CD-ROM

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Drew Taylor wrote: At 09:36 PM 2/5/03 -0800, Michael Maibaum wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: Now, who is going to do a dmg of Apache / mod_perl / libapreq?

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 6/2/03 14:30, Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE and Omni Web instead of the disk image.

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Morbus Iff
I tried `curl http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg' And got the same binary text d/l (and had to crash `terminal' to stop it :-( Curl, by default, will spit to STDOUT (ie. your Terminal) not to a file. I'm not in front of a OS X box right now, but I believe you've got to do:

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread pkeidesis
Phil Dobbin wrote: On 6/2/03 14:30, Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE and Omni Web instead of

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
Hey Nat -- Thanks. Downloaded and installed just fine on my t?rusty G4-350, OS X 10.2.3. I've been under a major deadline until last week, so I've just been watching everyone's travails with upgrading their OS X Perl installation. I took the risk of upgrading to Jaguar when it came out, but

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 6/2/03 16:58, Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried `curl http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg' And got the same binary text d/l (and had to crash `terminal' to stop it :-( Curl, by default, will spit to STDOUT (ie. your Terminal) not to a file. I'm not in front of a

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Nathan Torkington
Puneet Kishor writes: On a related note -- Nat, please, if you could summarize how fink trashed your system so much that you had to reinstall... that might be as great a help as creating a perl dmg. Fink makes a very big issue of how it protects your system by installing under /sw, and

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Nathan Torkington
Bruce Van Allen writes: After all the comments about downloading and wget/curl problems, I just wanted to let you know that, at least for one person, it worked out of the box, er, dmg. That is good to know, thanks! (Maybe I should add an installer shell script that curl's a page to let me

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Heather Madrone
At 4:55 PM + 2/6/03, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 6/2/03 14:30, Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg I get a text transfer of the binary when trying to d/l this in Mozilla, IE

Re: Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread John Adams
Bruce Van Allen writes: After all the comments about downloading and wget/curl problems, I just wanted to let you know that, at least for one person, it worked out of the box, er, dmg. I went you one better--after it installed it, I fired up CPAN and installed Class::DBI, along with its

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Corr
Nathan Torkington wrote: Are you running Jaguar? I'm on 10.2.3 and have /usr/bin/du too, not /sw/du, but it doesn't look like a problem. In fact, fink doesn't even list a du package. % which du /usr/bin/du % ls -al /sw/du ls: /sw/du: No such file or directory The fileutils package includes

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-05 Thread Paul McCann
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg Done, and much appreciated. (The machine on which I have just installed your dmg was giving all sorts of

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Torkington) wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg It installs Perl, Berkeley DB 4.1.25, DB_File 1.42 and Time::HiRes 1.42 into