Re: BBEdit Floating Function Palette

2001-09-20 Thread william ross
You know, that would be a great addition! Where do I petition for (someone else!) to develop it? =) bbedit-talk would be a better place to ask. It's a good list: see http://www.barebones.com/bbswlists.html apparently: This discussion list is intended for any current or prospective users of

Re: mod_perl

2001-09-25 Thread william ross
Has anyone here got mod_perl installed on OS X or OS X Server ? Steve yes. normal os x, and thanks to the old post from benjamin john turner which i've copied below. Does anyone know a good source for archive urls, by the way? develooper doesn't seem to have that one. there's some

Re: DB Object layer?

2001-11-03 Thread william ross
My experience with Class::DBI has been very good. One ends up subclassing it very soon, but it seems well designed for that. i only mention it because the url given here is out of date: the module has been taken over by Tony Bowden and the latest version can be found at:

Re: imagemagick, fink, versions, ick.

2002-04-18 Thread william ross
: (Not trimming your message, as I'm cc'ing it want to preserve context) On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, william ross wrote: after a few false starts, i've got imagemagick working, or rather fink has. i was initially reluctant to install all the bits of X11 that it insists on, but while i succeeded

Re: looking for backup solution...

2002-07-11 Thread william ross
fwb's backup toolkit looks promising. http://www.fwb.com/cs/btk/main.html claims that you can incrementally mirror a disk, though it insists on the truly awful word 'evolutive' and doesn't actually mention preservation of symlinks. there also appears to be a port of rsync with HFS+

Re: Installing MovableType?

2002-08-03 Thread william ross
I've just installed it on 10.1.5 without any difficulty. cgi scripts and libs in cgi-bin, /images, /docs and styles.css in a subdirectory of the web root, follow the admirably clear installation instructions and it worked right away. but that's almost certainly because i develop similar

Re: Installing MovableType?

2002-08-03 Thread william ross
On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 01:05 AM, Morbus Iff wrote: but that's almost certainly because i develop similar applications and therefore had Imagemagick and mysql and most of the other requirements already installed. i only needed to add SOAP::Lite and HTML::Template. The Imagemagick and

10.2.1 breaks entropy mysql? (kind of OT, but useful)

2002-09-20 Thread william ross
hello, just a fyi. unless it's a coincidence, it looks to me like upgrading to 10.2.1 (_must_ stop doing that) breaks Marc Liyanage's mysql installation. reinstalling the package didn't help, and tinkering with paths in safe_mysqld just produced ever more baffling error messages, so I've

Re: arbitrarily complex variables

2002-09-24 Thread william ross
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote: is their a perl module that can help print out an arbitrarily complex variable either on the command line, or better yet, in a nicely formatted n-deep table in html? the variable could be anything as simple as an array, or

5.8.0 / jaguar / mod_perl / thanks

2002-10-01 Thread william ross
Hello, just a quick, and probably redundant, note of follow-up and thanks after recent discussion of ssl and mod_perl on jaguar. I can confirm that david wheeler's instructions work nicely when compiling apache with mod_perl 1.27 and perl 5.8.0, apache 1.3.26 and mod_ssl whatever it was. the

Re: 10.2 + 5.8 CPAN trouble

2002-10-02 Thread william ross
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: here's your immediate problem: CPAN build and cache directory? [/Users/rjolly/.cpan] y to accept the default, just press return. having answered 'y', your cache directory is now './y', which doesn't exist. You can correct that

Re: 10.2 + 5.8 CPAN trouble

2002-10-02 Thread william ross
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 02:01 PM, william ross wrote: On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: here's your immediate problem: CPAN build and cache directory? [/Users/rjolly/.cpan] y

careful with the disk utility file permission fixer upper

2002-10-08 Thread william ross
hello, the 'repair file permissions' function of apple's disk utility appears to be no respecter of boundaries: it cheerfully set all the files in /usr/local/apache/bin and /usr/local/apache_proxy/bin to 644, for example, despite the fact that they're owned by root. it seems to have left

Re: scripts don't run

2002-10-23 Thread william ross
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:14 AM, Chuck Jacobson wrote: Please forgive me because in some ways I am a newbie and in some ways I am not. I have written several perl scripts but I have never admin'd a Perl installation. Now I have it on my iBook and G4. First, I knew perl was in OS X

os x specific DBD::mysql insert_id problem?

2002-10-21 Thread william ross
i doubt that this is an actual bug, or there would have been a discussion before, but just in case someone can save what remains of my hair: anyone aware of an os-x-specific problem with dbd::mysql's $dbh-{last_insertid}? it always returns zero on my powerbook, but the identical applications

Re: Check for root level access in a Perl script

2002-10-27 Thread william ross
On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:53 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: At 8:28 PM -0400 10/26/02, Mark Knipfer wrote: On 10/26/02 1:25 PM, Trey Harris wrote: Did you test this code snippet it? It won't work. You can't use a numeric comparison to test for stringwise equality. (Sorry to be

Re: Check for root level access in a Perl script

2002-11-01 Thread william ross
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 06:17 AM, Ken Williams wrote: On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Mark Knipfer wrote: On 10/26/02 1:25 PM, Trey Harris wrote: snip One of the cardinal rules of defensive programming, at least in the Unix world, is that you shouldn't check if you

imagemagick again

2003-11-13 Thread william ross
has anyone had any success installing perlmagick on panther? I'm using the fink-and-make method, which has always worked for me before and is succinctly described by Randal in http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/3812 fink on 10.3 is in some flux at the moment and they don't recommend

Re: perlmagick on panther working

2003-11-18 Thread william ross
) 'MAP_TARGET'= 'PerlMagick', On 17 Nov 2003, at 13:41, william ross wrote: hello again. I've got perlmagick working, at last. snip

Re: expected to be defined in a dynamic image

2003-11-21 Thread william ross
I've run into these. The answer has been to specify explicitly libraries that are normally left implicit. I found the failures odd, too. if a libdir is incorrect, make fails. if the directory is correct but the library is unspecified, make appears to work but all tests fail. (eg. to build

Re: expected to be defined in a dynamic image

2003-11-21 Thread william ross
On 21 Nov 2003, at 20:54, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ross) wrote: snip In your case it looks like a broken link to libapreq. i had similar errors with libapreq built through CPAN.pm, but I vaguely recall that rebuilding it by hand seemed to work

Re: expected to be defined in a dynamic image

2003-11-21 Thread william ross
On 21 Nov 2003, at 22:15, Chris Nandor wrote: At 22:01 + 2003.11.21, william ross wrote: On 21 Nov 2003, at 20:54, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ross) wrote: snip In your case it looks like a broken link to libapreq. i had similar errors

DBD::mysql again: last_insert_ids

2003-11-23 Thread william ross
hello, Having somehow managed to install DBD::mysql on 10.3 without running into the obstacles that others have described here - which is always worrying - I now find that it doesn't quite work. most functions are fine, but it fails to get a correct last_insert_id: instead it returns zero,

Re: DBD::mysql again: last_insert_ids (fixed)

2003-11-23 Thread william ross
CPAN.pm. Download from here instead: http://search.cpan.org/~rudy/DBD-mysql-2.9002/ best will ps. I have applied Mr Moy's change to /System/Library/...blah.../Config.pm, which presumably helped. On 23 Nov 2003, at 19:12, william ross wrote: hello, Having somehow managed to install DBD

Re: head

2003-11-23 Thread william ross
...because the makers assumed a filesystem that would not treat head and HEAD as the same thing. but i thought recent versions of LWP confined their improvements to /usr/local/bin, so who kno. will On 23 Nov 2003, at 19:20, Jerry Rocteur wrote: Hi, Why would a Perl Module installation

Re: Download images/movies

2004-08-23 Thread william ross
On 21 Aug 2004, at 20:07, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote: I have a picture gallery I building for my family. When a movie or picture is displayed, I want them to be able to save it. But... if I just provide a link in the coding to the actual file, it will open up in

Re: Download images/movies

2004-08-23 Thread william ross
On 23 Aug 2004, at 18:49, Morbus Iff wrote: Perhaps set the path of the image directory into the script, hardcoded like so: $path = '/home/fubar/www/images'; or something like that so you are restricting to a certain directory, and not just letting any file be read in by the cgi and sent to

Re: Download images/movies

2004-08-23 Thread william ross
On 23 Aug 2004, at 12:14, Chris Devers wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, william ross wrote: snip This will mean that jpegs in that directory can't ever be used on pages -- which would kind of ruin the fun. There seems to be an easy workaround though: symlink ~/Sites/images (or whatever

Re: 10.3.5 - mod_perl upgrade trouble

2004-09-21 Thread william ross
On 20 Sep 2004, at 20:31, Chris Devers wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Andrew Brosnan wrote: However, even though it appears that mod_perl is loaded, I can't get mod_perl scripts to run. This had been driving me nuts for months, and I finally figured it out this weekend. I posted a message a while

Re: ImageMagick/PerlMagick on Panther

2004-09-22 Thread william ross
On 22 Sep 2004, at 17:16, Mark Wheeler wrote: Hi, I am about to install my first module. I've been learning perl for the past several years and am building a web site that needs ImageMagick/PerlMagick. First, how difficult is it to install these modules? I really really wouldn't start out by

Re: ImageMagick/PerlMagick on Panther

2004-09-22 Thread william ross
On 22 Sep 2004, at 22:14, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Chris Devers wrote: The ability to do this by hand can obviously be valuable, but it can hardly be easier :-) I didn't say it was easier without Fink, I said it was possible. William stated that, to have *any* chance *at

Re: ImageMagick/PerlMagick on Panther

2004-09-22 Thread william ross
On 22 Sep 2004, at 19:21, Mark Wheeler wrote: Imager? I've not heard of that one. Can you give me a bit more info on it? How is is different from ImageMagick? It's a little more to the point than imagemagick: it will resize, translate and perform basic filters, but it lacks the more esoteric

Re: ImageMagick/PerlMagick on Panther

2004-09-23 Thread william ross
On 23 Sep 2004, at 12:28, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ingo Weiss wrote: I installed Fink after unsuccessfully trying to install Image::Magick using CPAN a couple of days ago. Fink is installing imagemagick as I write this. I was kind of hoping that this, and then installing

libapreq 1.3 fix

2004-10-18 Thread William Ross
hello all, Having replaced a powerbook, I've been banging my head against libapreq again, o joy. I can confirm that in order to install it you need to apply Stas's patch from last year, as found here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apreq-devm=105965131008577w=2 At least, I couldn't get

apple's system transfer tool

2004-10-18 Thread William Ross
Incidentally, I've just used Apple's new system-transfer tool to start off the new powerbook, and noticed that it successfully copies /sw and the contents of /Library/Perl as well as the more obvious directories. It doesn't get /usr/local, though, which seems an odd omission, or /usr/X11R6,

Re: Problems installing modules

2004-12-04 Thread William Ross
On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : you are doing this as root, aren't you? only it looks like you might not be... will All tests successful. Files=41, Tests=778, 43 wallclock secs ( 6.39 cusr

Re: Problems installing modules

2004-12-04 Thread William Ross
On 4 Dec 2004, at 20:21, Marek Stepanek wrote: On 04/12/2004 12:57, William Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Dec 2004, at 21:25, Marek Stepanek wrote: Please ! Nobody can help me out ? I still get these error messages, trying to install LWP : you are doing this as root, aren't you? only it looks

Re: Problems installing modules

2004-12-05 Thread William Ross
On 5 Dec 2004, at 09:07, Marek Stepanek wrote: * installing blib/man1 to ?~name * with PERL_INSTALL_ROOT '' * mkpath(?~name) mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115 make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255 your perl configuration is slightly broken.

Re: TextWrangler

2005-01-21 Thread William Ross
On 21 Jan 2005, at 06:17, Bruce Van Allen wrote: On 2005-01-21 John Horner wrote: At 9:34 PM -0800 20/1/05, Chris Nandor wrote: it handles all the same Perl stuff as its bigger sibling: syntax coloring, running scripts, filters, debugging, viewing POD, etc. How does BBEdit view POD? I never knew

Re: TextWrangler

2005-01-21 Thread William Ross
On 21 Jan 2005, at 12:35, Jeff Lowrey wrote: At 07:10 AM 1/21/2005, Ken Williams wrote: See http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/threeway.shtml for a 3-way comparison between BBE, TW, and BBELite. While we're playing around with Editor Wars... there's no need for that sort of language...

apache 2 + mod_perl 2 + apreq + svn

2005-03-27 Thread William Ross
hello. Apache mod_perl 2 are much easier to configure and install than versions 1.x, but even so it has taken quite a while for me to get this right. In case other people are considering this route, here's what I've learned: 1. If you want the option of trying different MPMs with mod_perl,

Re: apache 2 + mod_perl 2 + apreq + svn

2005-03-27 Thread William Ross
On 27 Mar 2005, at 16:14, William Ross wrote: hello. snip 6. If you're importing CVS repositories into SVN, you need svn2cvs, from http://svn2cvs.tigris.org/, which depends on a python library that panther lacks. There are instructions here: http://sumorai.net/s9y/archives/226

build problems with metadata...

2005-10-07 Thread William Ross
hello, Has anyone found a good solution to the ._problem with apple metadata breaking module distributions? (in which Tiger's newly metadata-enabled command line apps, such as tar, silently add files like ._Makefile.PL to get around apple's complete failure to put together a coherent

Re: build problems with metadata...(answer)

2005-10-09 Thread William Ross
On 8 Oct 2005, at 01:38, Joel Rees wrote: If you leave the system tar(1) alone, and install GNU tar elsewhere (eg in /sw if you use fink) *and* if you don't edit any system config stuff like $PATHs, just edit your own $PATH in your .bash_whatever files to put GNU tar first in your $PATH,