Re: [MacPerl] Installing modules.

[dick@cfcl.com (Dick Karpinski)]

>At Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:41 Chris Nandor wrote:
>>You probably need to change the line endings from Unix to Mac.

At 15.19 -0400 1998.09.17, Dick Karpinski wrote:
>Wouldn't it be nice if (a wrapped?) MacPerl or Shuck automatically
>provided this kind of information exactly at the time and place that
>it is needed?  Could a generic wrapper provide that service, giving
>hints, or better handling the setup and the conversion itself?  How
>would you make the wrapper reusable?
>
>Could I afford to pay somebody to do that?

>At Thu, 17 Sep 1998 Chris Nandor wrote:
>I don't think it is worth it.  It is not hard to change the linefeeds for
>oneself.  It is mentioned in the book in the installation chapter.
>Eventually, MacPerl might be able to read code with \015, \012, or \015\012
>as the line ending, but only if it is supported in the perl core itself,
>which it might be already in 5.005.

I know it's easy to do, but not easy to know, for beginners.

>But to make a wrapper, which would not be hard, would be worse than the
>real solution, which is converting the line endings: no one would use it
>unless they knew what it was for, and no one who knew what it was for would
>use it.

Just make it the most obvious name like RunMeFirst or make it the 
default and let the experts reconfigure it, when they know enough.  
Sort of like training wheels that you take off after you get it.

Dick

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