# from David E. Wheeler
# on Monday 02 February 2009 13:01:
>> Because I want to be able to build a PAR/exe/whatever for more than
>> one platform from a single system. I could "just" jump through a
>> bunch of hoops trying to automate it with ssh, but I've done that
>> already and it wasn't fun.
On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
Because I want to be able to build a PAR/exe/whatever for more than
one
platform from a single system. I could "just" jump through a bunch of
hoops trying to automate it with ssh, but I've done that already and
it
wasn't fun.
I think you m
# from David E. Wheeler
# on Monday 02 February 2009 09:26:
>>But, if I wanted to determine the win32
>> dependencies from Linux (for e.g. bundled packaging from a single
>> build
>> machine), I would have to set $^O to get the right answer -- and
>> that might have undesired side-effects.
>
>Wh
On Feb 1, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote:
The problem here is defining an "environment"...
The only two big use cases as for doing arch-level alternate deps
(which is a mixture of looking for MSWin32 or (MSWin32||cygwin) and
looking for libraries (all those XS modules).
The number of thi
On Feb 1, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
So, arbitrary code would check $^O eq 'MSWin32', or possibly something
silly like "-d 'c:\\progra~1'" and yield the desired answer on the
target environment. But, if I wanted to determine the win32
dependencies from Linux (for e.g. bundled packag
The problem here is defining an "environment"...
The only two big use cases as for doing arch-level alternate deps
(which is a mixture of looking for MSWin32 or (MSWin32||cygwin) and
looking for libraries (all those XS modules).
The number of things you have to know about the target environment
j
# from David E. Wheeler
# on Thursday 29 January 2009 15:06:
>As I said in my previous email, if I'm installing your code, I'm going
> to be running it, anyway. So why can't the build script be written
> in Perl?
Well, that's the wrong argument. Sure, running arbitrary code requires
more trus
