Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

2001-02-10 Thread Branden
Actually, I'm starting to like .tgz. With .tgz you wouldn't be able to run the program without extracting the archive, but if you store the archive as .tar, there would be no problem. .tgz could be used for network transmission, and the archive could either be installed or stored as a .tar in a

Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

2001-02-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:46:26PM -0200, Branden wrote: Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Whatever we do I would much prefer being package format agnostic instead of tying ourselves too tightly with some single format. Any ideas on how to do that? Without breaking

Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

2001-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:05 AM 2/10/2001 +0100, Bart Lateur wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:06:12 -0500, Ken Fox wrote: 2. Work proportional to live data, not total data. This is hard to believe for a C programmer, but good garbage collectors don't have to "free" every allocation -- they just have to

Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

2001-02-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Mark Koopman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:06:12 -0500, Ken Fox wrote: That may work for C, but not for Perl. sub test { my($foo, $bar, %baz); ... return \%baz; } You may notice that only PART of the locally malloced