Re: [MacPerl] Another call for code!

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

 > This is precisely the situation that Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> was 
 > trying to address at last year's Perl Conference.  In fact he stated then 
 > that he wanted both some help with the scripts/ directory as well as either 

There is actually now a mailing list where people discusss and not
just discuss but also organize this thing.  The plans are quite far
but that doesn't mean new scripts librarians aren't welcome, on the
contrary.  Please subscribe to scripts@perl.org by sending "subscribe
scripts" in message body to Majordomo@perl.org.  As your first message
you could ask where we are now, I unfortunately can't say exactly (I
am waiting just for the final results :-)

 > a revamped ports/ dir or a new bin/ dir for binaries for as many platforms 
 > as possible (even UNIX ones).  I realize that you may not wish to take over 

Well, I am still schizophrenic-paranoid over the UNIX binaries.
First, they take a lot of space (there are dozens of binary
incompatible UNIXes out there).  Second, they are a security threat.
I see my (and others') time much more well spent if UNIX vendors
either (a) start supplying Perl with their OS (b) vendors supply the
binaries in web.  Please insinuate your nearest friendly UNIX vendors
to include Perl with the next release of their OS.

 > the job of the scripts librarian, but would you please consider helping 
 > Jarkko out?  (Unfortunately I do not have access to ftp uploading from here).
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > Peter Prymmer
 > 

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