Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:02:28PM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > Having gone through much the same pain a couple of weeks ago (although > I just broke down and installed the linux-jdk-1.3.1 port after Sun's > web site told me to come back later), I eagerly await a pure-Perl > replacement for F

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>Nevertheless, a degenerate case for installing Perl never requires > *>transfers or temporary disk space measured in quarter gigabytes. > > Sure it can. Allow me to clarify: a

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Christopher Masto
Having gone through much the same pain a couple of weeks ago (although I just broke down and installed the linux-jdk-1.3.1 port after Sun's web site told me to come back later), I eagerly await a pure-Perl replacement for FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html)). -- Christopher Masto S

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:51:33PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > *>That's their fault. Find a better distribution. > > There are a lot of Solaris 8 users out there and to have a broken OEM Perl > is not optimal. That response would not be well received. If distributes a broken Perl with

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Not all OS, though most, have Perl in the base install and those that do > even have problems. Config.pm has issues on HP and Sun, RedHat has spotty > RPMs that occsaionally go awry. That's their fault. Find a better distrib

Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-29 Thread Chip Turner
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:29:53PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > Not all OS, though most, have Perl in the base install and those that do > > even have problems. Config.pm has issues on HP and Sun, RedHat has spotty > > RPMs that occsaionall