From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 04:39:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 338 ************************************************** Sunday 06 October 2002 Number 338 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Perl 5.8.0 binary : Lyn St George" 2 Re: Perl 5.8.0 binary : Lyn St George" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:28:59 +0000 From: "Lyn St George" Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 binary On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:46:33 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > >Can you explain the nature of the additions you need for Interchange? >Is there any reason not to include those additions in a standard version >of Perl for OS/2? IMV, it doesn't really make much sense to have several >versions of the latest Perl. I would like to have a single version which >works in all circumstances. Apparently Interchange installs quite painlessly on Cygwin for Windoze, whereas it has to be patched to install on Perl/EMX for OS/2. Patching perl instead makes more sense, if possible, and so the extra #defines are: HAS_PASSWD HAS_GETPWENT HAS_GETGRID HAS_GETGRNAM HAS_GETGRENT HAS_CRYPT 'HAS_CHOWN' is the only one left which needs to be implemented (so as to leave only the 'symlink' function which can be easily patched) in Interchange. All the above build in without problems, but 'chown' turns out to need some work, for which I will need to make some time. Interchange also needs a variety of extra modules for its own use, and so these were added in after the main Perl build. These are: Digest::MD5 Safe::Hole SQL::Statement LWP::Simple though I think there may be several others also in that particular package. >How well does your version perform with the built in tests? I think we got >down to around four or less fails when several people were testing it. It >would be nice to put together a UnixOS/2 Perl package at some point after >the excellent work done in making it work straight out of the box when it >was released. ISTR that it was in the top bracket, partly because I run ObjectRexx and so it passed the Rexx test which others failed on. I really do want to add the 'has_chown' define at some time, and at that point this would be a reasonable candidate for a standard package. - Cheers Lyn St George +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + http://www.zolotek.net .. eCommerce hosting, consulting + http://www.os2docs.org .. some 'How To' stuff ... +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:28:59 +0000 From: "Lyn St George" Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 binary On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:46:33 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > >Can you explain the nature of the additions you need for Interchange? >Is there any reason not to include those additions in a standard version >of Perl for OS/2? IMV, it doesn't really make much sense to have several >versions of the latest Perl. I would like to have a single version which >works in all circumstances. Apparently Interchange installs quite painlessly on Cygwin for Windoze, whereas it has to be patched to install on Perl/EMX for OS/2. Patching perl instead makes more sense, if possible, and so the extra #defines are: HAS_PASSWD HAS_GETPWENT HAS_GETGRID HAS_GETGRNAM HAS_GETGRENT HAS_CRYPT 'HAS_CHOWN' is the only one left which needs to be implemented (so as to leave only the 'symlink' function which can be easily patched) in Interchange. All the above build in without problems, but 'chown' turns out to need some work, for which I will need to make some time. Interchange also needs a variety of extra modules for its own use, and so these were added in after the main Perl build. These are: Digest::MD5 Safe::Hole SQL::Statement LWP::Simple though I think there may be several others also in that particular package. >How well does your version perform with the built in tests? I think we got >down to around four or less fails when several people were testing it. It >would be nice to put together a UnixOS/2 Perl package at some point after >the excellent work done in making it work straight out of the box when it >was released. ISTR that it was in the top bracket, partly because I run ObjectRexx and so it passed the Rexx test which others failed on. I really do want to add the 'has_chown' define at some time, and at that point this would be a reasonable candidate for a standard package. - Cheers Lyn St George +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + http://www.zolotek.net .. eCommerce hosting, consulting + http://www.os2docs.org .. some 'How To' stuff ... +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------