Re: Filter::Exec portability (was Re: EmuMail: ...)

[J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:26:09, EMUmail Tech Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>Filter::decrypt is a required module.  I suggest contacting the module's
>author, Paul Marquess and asking him if he has a port.  I'd guess he does
>as it's been around forever.

        Well, as you may have noticed in Craig's comments, he's concerned
        NOT about Filter::decrypt but rather with Filter::exec.  Thus if it
        is likely that there's a VMS port of Filter::decrypt, is it also just
        as likely that it's already present in the OpenVMS distribution?

        I guess this goes back to one of the original questions that the
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] community asked me when I first reported my
        difficulties getting EmuMail up on OpenVMS -- that there seemed to
        be a large number of STANDARD modules being recompiled.

        EmuMail's technical team responded, saying that they incorporated
        these standard modules to insure consistancey.

        Now me, I just plain am new to perl, almost as new to it as I am
        to Unix (oh, I've known something about both for years, just held
        off becoming involved in them as long as I could ;-).  So I don't
        know which of the EmuMail modules involved it its build are standard
        and which aren't.  

        I'd almost prefer to isolate the NONSTANDARD modules, and just do 
        them up -- pulling the standard modules from the OpenVMS perl
        implementation that can be used, and only including EmuMail modules
        that aren't provided there.  Can you identify those modules from
        the \emumail-modules-4-5.9\modules-sorted.txt file below?

        # This is a list of the modules, sorted in the order 
        # in which they should be installed. 
        IO
        Digest-MD5
        libnet
        CGI.pm
        Data-Dumper
        FCGI
        Filter
        HTML-Tagset
        HTML-Parser
        HTML-Tree
        Convert-ASN1
        Convert-BER
        IO-stringy
        MailTools
        MIME-Base64
        MIME-tools
        Text-Tabs+Wrap
        TimeDate
        URI
        VRML
        libwww-perl
        perl-ldap
        HTML-Embperl
        Net-DNS
        XML-Parser

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>On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818 wrote:
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>:On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:57:57, "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:
>:>I can confirm that the Filter::Exec module is not going to work out of the 
>:>box on VMS.  It does a lot of piping, forking, Unix-style file locking, and 
>:>other unseemly business.  It appears to have been ported to Win32, and I 
>:>suspect a VMS port is doable for someone with the time and interest.
>:>
>:>Note that Filter::Exec is only one of a whole set of extensions included 
>:>with the Filter bundle.  If EmuMail doesn't require this particular one, 
>:>just skip it, Lance.
>:
>:      I'm Cc'ing to the EmuMail folks on this, to see just how dependent
>:      their code is on this component.  
>:
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