Re: [MacPerl] Questions from starter...

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

At 7:38 AM -0500 10/28/98, Chris Nandor wrote:

} You made two main errors.  One, you did not notice that the libnet
} distribution comes with MacPerl already, and new versions can be had from
} Paul Schinder's site (http://www.pobox.com/~schinder/).

But note that the next release of libnet, whenever it happens, will include
full MacPerl support, so a MacPerl port will no longer be necessary.  Since
Graham Barr, the author of libnet, is now the Pumpking for Perl
5.005_[0-4]., that may be a while, but it will happen eventually.  (Until
then, a MacPerl port of libnet-1.0605 is at my site, and an older libnet is
sitting in MacPerl's lib directory.)  That makes this:

} Second, you did
} not read the directions for installing modules under MacPerl, which are in
} the book, and on CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html).

even more important, since libnet will no longer come as a .sit.hqx with
instructions on how to install under MacPerl.

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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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