Hi Craig, Reading my mail newer to older, sorry.
One thought is to leave VMS-persona-1_01 and document that it will not work beyond vms 7.3-1, or on VAX (where I can't do any testing). The redesigned module should have a new name, such as VMS::Assume_Persona, although I'm open to suggestions (that's an unwieldy name). It should be different enough to avoid any possible confusion. Even raising the version of VMS::Persona to 2.x would probably not be appropriate. I'll have a look at Mark Daniel's site, and also check out http://www.eight-cubed.com/examples/framework.php?file=sys_persona.c I'll be glad to engage Peter Prymmer in this effort. Carl Friedberg friedb...@esb.com www.esb.com The Elias Book of Baseball Records 2009 Edition > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:craigbe...@mac.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:07 AM > To: Carl Friedberg > Cc: 'VMSperl Mailing List' > Subject: Re: VMS::Persona > > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been slogging through various VMS modules > > which I am building on perl 5.10.0., VMS 8.3, > > Alpha. > > > > Is anyone using VMS::Persona? If not, I'll quit > > here. > > > > I've found a number of issues. After this module > > was initially released by Dan Sugalski (before > > 2000), there have been some significant changes > > to the way the VMS system services behave. The > > 3 services are > > > > PERSONA_ASSUME > > PERSONA_CREATE > > PERSONA_DELETE > > > > If anyone is actually using this xs module, then > > I will be happy to dig into this and figure out > > how to deal with the newer interpretation. > > > I've had a request or two to have it do things it can't. I started > to > look at it once and realized what you have, which is that the > interfaces it depends on changed so radically that it really needs a > redesign, not just a touch-up. If you have time to work on it, > please > do. Mark Daniels' mondesi package has up-to-date examples of calling > these services: > > <http://wasd.vsm.com.au/ht_root/src/mondesi/> > > ________________________________________ > Craig A. Berry > mailto:craigbe...@mac.com > > "... getting out of a sonnet is much more > difficult than getting in." > Brad Leithauser
