[MacPerl] New stuff available at mors.gsfc.nasa.gov

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>]

In general I don't usually make an announcement on the list when I put a
new package on mors, but a lot of things have changed this week.
libnet-1.0602, libwww-perl-5.16, and MailTools-1.1002 are now available in
<ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/>.  The libnet and libwww
ports are the full package, and these should not be used to upgrade the
libnet and libwww in the :MacPerl Ä:lib: of a current MacPerl 5.15r4
distribution (libwww-perl-5.13 and libnet-1.0505), because Matthias'
changes are not included yet.

Instead, in <ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/Beta/> you'll
find the updaters.  They're in the Beta folder only because this is new and
untried (well, *I've* tried it and maybe Chris Nandor has, but no one else
that I'm aware of).  If you're paranoid, like me, you'll make a backup of
your lib folder before running the updaters.  But since the software is a
light hack of the reliable ExtUtils::Install of the standard Perl
distribution, nothing should go wrong.  Up until a few weeks ago I would
have just used ExtUtils::Install, but then libnet-1.06 and 1.0601 came out
and I had to "make uninstall" several times on my Sun, which made me
realize that there had to be a way to quickly undo what was done by the
installer.

To use the installers, unpack them and double click the "Macfile.PL"
droplet.  (This stupid joke will probably disappear in the future in favor
of something like "Install", but I couldn't resist just this once.)  It
will ask you what folder you want to update, giving you it's best guess as
to where your MacPerl lib folder is.  Make sure it's right, then click OK.
(If you want to install somewhere else, make sure you type the full path to
the folder that *contains* LWP.pm, or the folder that *contains* the Net
folder in the case of libnet).  The installer will run and replace the
files that need to be updated.  If you ever need to reinstall the old
version, keep the updater folder intact and simply double click on
"Macfile.PL" again, and it will do just that.  (It doesn't actually
deinstall the new version, because it makes no attempt to track down any
brand new files or folders and delete them.  But by definition the old
version didn't need these, so everything should be fine.)

All the new files (and *only* changed files) are in the blib folder when
you unpack the installer, just in case you've made you're own changes to
libnet or libwww and you need to see whether you have to rescue anything
before updating.

A revision of Mac::Conversions (cosmetic changes only) will appear
tomorrow, and I'm going to update most of my personal scripts that are on
mors tomorrow, since a lot of them are seriously behind what I actually use.

---
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771
schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us



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