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----- Forwarded message from Edward Moy <emoy@apple.com> -----
From: Edward Moy <emoy@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:36:54 -0800
To: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions to better ship Perl on OS X.
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619)
Yes, I'm still the person. The splitting of the perl (and other
projects) into different distributions has been a sore point for a long
time. The historical reason for it was to make a minimum system
installation fit on the minimum number of CDs. This is of less
importance now that DVDs are being used for distribution, but still a
consideration.
So thanks for reporting the perldiag.pod problem. The problem of pure
perl modules failing to install because the CORE header files are
missing (which I assume is still a problem) was on my list to get
fixed, but I've busy on so many other things.
Are there any other issues along these lines that I can use as an
argument to keep perl together? I need to convince the group that does
the actual packaging of the distributions.
Edward Moy
Apple
On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:19 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>Hi Ed. I've just gone through putting together a fresh OS X
>installation
>and was reminded of the little nits in Apple's Perl installation that
>could
>use fixing when next they do an upgrade (with Tiger?) I forget who
>handles
>this at Apple, if not you could you please forward this on to whom it
>may
>concern?
>
>
>1) perldiag.pod is missing from default, diagnostics.pm breaks.
>
>This causes "use diagnostics" to fail. Any code which uses
>diagnostics.pm
>will fail. I tend to notice this when installing Inline.pm.
>
>perldiag.pod is available in the Developer Documentation part of XCode
>I
>believe. I tend to not bother installing that because its nearly a gig
>which seems a little silly to get one file.
>
>Recommendation: Since some code will not run without it, move
>perldiag.pod
>into the default Perl installation.
>
>Typical work around: Copy perldiag.pod from 5.8.1 source.
>
>
>2) perlfunc.pod is missing from default, perldoc -f breaks.
>
>Without perlfunc.pod, perldoc -f will not work.
>
>perlfunc.pod, like perldiag, is available in the very large Developer
>Documentation part of XCode. Same problem with perldiag, its silly to
>install a gig of docs just to get one file.
>
>Recommendation: Since perldoc is installed by default and it requires
>perlfunc.pod to be fully functional, perlfunc.pod should be installed
>by
>default.
>
>Typical work around: Copy perlfunc.pod from 5.8.1 source.
>
>
>--
>Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com
>http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
>the chair. it wants to die. oh no! she sees me! she attacks!
----- End forwarded message -----
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