Re: [MacPerl] Re: 5.15r4

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur) writes:
>The new MacPerl Release  5.15r4 doesn't contain Internet Config.

Yes it does, but you might have missed it: It's not installed in "MacPerl f",
but in a parallel folder (As Internet Config 1.4).

> Which shows, once again, how dangerous it is to replace a folder by a newer
> version, instead of adding missing/updated files.

I see it as sort of a "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situation, and past
experience leads me to believe that it's better to risk more trouble in the
first few days by doing quick fixes than to deal with months of complaints
about an obvious bug left in the release. Users *never* get the "required
patches". 

>Oh, yes, as an addendum:
>
>>Alan Fry <ajf@afco.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>There are quite a few examples already in the folder 'ext' in:
>>>   ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/Beta/MacPerl_pm_xs_pod_t.tar
>
>Ah, this URL is wrong. I think the file name needs an extra ".gz" at the
>end. Something like that, anyway.

Yes, but as I said, no need for you to use it.

>Matthias wrote:
>>Curiously enough, all of these files are already in the MacPerl distribution!
>>The file Alan named only exists for somebody who has no Mac and wanted to kno
w
>>what was possible.
>
>Er... not quite. In the Unix-compressed archive, ext:Mac contains 22
>folders, and in the 5.15r4 distribution only 13.

As Alan pointed out to me, I'd had lots of omissions in 5.1.*4* and had already
corrected them in the distribution scripts & forgotten about the correction
(must have looked at my own pen, I guess) by the time I wrote my followup.
5.1.5 DOES install 22 folders into :ext:Mac, so I assume what you wrote above
was a typo (Or you mistakenly grabbed 5.1.4 instead of 5.1.5 last night, which
would explain the missing Internet Config, too).

Matthias

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