Re: [MacPerl] Updated libnet?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 10:25 AM +0200 4/23/98, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

} Wade Williams <wwilliam@cisco.com> writes:
} >What's the chance of getting an updated libnet and GD.pm in the next
}release?
}
}  - GD got an update in 5.2.0.
}  - I will try to remember to update libnet for the next release, but
}  - Unless drastical problems occur, the next release probably won't be due
}    until June at the earliest.

You can always get the current version of libnet ported to MacPerl from my
site, <http://pobox.com/~schinder/MacPerl.html>.  And as Matthias knows,
since he was involved, the next version of libnet should have MacPerl
support built into the standard distribution.

The problem is always that CPAN modules, especially the active ones like
libwww-perl-5 (the 5.32 port is now available) and CGI, get revised on
timescales much shorter than MacPerl's.  There's simply no way for Matthias
to keep up, especially if the module has to be modified.  On Unix, the CPAN
module is a tremendous help in dealing with this problem, but it's full of
Unixisms and won't work under MacPerl.  I've tried to provide a solution to
the upgrade problem for the modules I port, but it isn't perfect.

}
} Matthias
}
} --
} Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
}http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
}    "One fine day in my odd past..." -- Pixies, _Planet of Sound_
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schinder@pobox.com

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