srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) (10/24/90)
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: >In article <1990Oct22.082228.6230@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: >: While I'm here, Larry: will you be including the (vast) amount of portability >: wisdom added by the development of perl 3 into a new release of >: metaconfig at any time ? Just so you're sure there's more than one of us who might like to use a newer metaconfig, I'd like to second that. Dist V2 neeeded some mild hacks to work with the newer versions of perl (problems with variable names like "package"). >I'm planning to. (Hoping to?) Great! >Larry - Scott -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet
na@iitb.fhg.de (Reinhold Nagel) (10/31/90)
Hallo folks!
Here is a relatively new perl fan that has followed the news in comp.lang.perl
for about half a year or so (since patchlevel 27, to give a perlese date).
I especially liked the procedure of installing perl (Configure, make depend,
make, make test, make install).
Lately I have seen requests for "metaconfig" which I think is just the
package I need for a job I have to do here.
I tried to locate a version of this package on the internet, but without luck.
My questions:
*Does* a package "metaconfig" exist, that contains more than is already in
the perl-kits?
If so, where can I get it?
When will there be the new (the first) release of such a package?
Any help welcome!
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In article <9010311425.AA12640@se01.iitb.fhg.de> na@iitb.fhg.de (Reinhold Nagel) writes:
: Lately I have seen requests for "metaconfig" which I think is just the
: package I need for a job I have to do here.
It's part of another package called "dist". An ancient version of it can
be found on this machine.
: My questions:
: *Does* a package "metaconfig" exist, that contains more than is already in
: the perl-kits?
The package you can currently ftp has some units not used by Perl, and Perl
has some units not in that version of metaconfig.
: When will there be the new (the first) release of such a package?
Hopefully a new version can be produced pretty soon, but I can't promise
at what time, since it's a back burner project. Hokey has been working it
over, regularizing it and such, and I hope to use his version when I switch
to Perl 4.0.
Larry