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Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

Some yummy facts about Leopard: Scripting Bridge Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a ...

Jeremiah
Oct 17, 2007 at 10:09 am
Oct 26, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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Leopard Perl version...

Is it being bumped up to 5.8.8? I am just curious... Robert

Robert Hicks
Oct 12, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Oct 16, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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Detecting OS X version from perl

Is there any simple way that people can think of to detect which major version of OS X my perl code is running on? ie whether it's 10.0, 10.1 etc, I don't care about the difference between 10.3.3 and ...

David Cantrell
Oct 14, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Nov 21, 2007 at 3:21 am
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Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?

As both Java and Javascript both have a 'true' and 'false' or Boolean data type, is there any interest in evolution of Perl to have a true Boolean. Or what is the preferred method to do this in Perl. ...

Michael Barto
Oct 15, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Oct 17, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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Not exactly a Perl question

Do any of you use use VMWare or Parallels to test your stuff on other distros? Which did you pick to use and why? Robert

Robert Hicks
Oct 26, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Oct 27, 2007 at 2:15 am
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Re: Re: Leopard Perl version... @ 1192462023

Intrah onat Diria .. , ****** wrote "Revera y": like what for example ? thanks imegola jmcs3 --------the following could be unreadable @ 1192462124 ::: ...

Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3
Oct 15, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Oct 17, 2007 at 10:24 pm
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"my variable" at global level not being passed

I am working with an old Perl Library (program module) written in Perl4 and Perl 5 depending who was "hacking the code". My program that calls it, uses -w and strict and has identified many syntax ...

Michael Barto
Oct 4, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Oct 5, 2007 at 10:54 am
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Parsing com.apple.sidebar.plist alias data. Can Mac::Files help?

Hi, I've written some code to handle relocating of user home folders, in particular, the rewriting of full paths in preference files. For the majority of applications, this all works sweetly with ...

Gavin Brock
Oct 24, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Oct 24, 2007 at 7:43 pm
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PerlObjCBridge

Just a simple question. I have upgraded my Perl to 5.8.8, but I did not overwrite the default Perl, rather I installed 5.8.8 into /usr/ local/bin. I was wondering if I could still use PerlObjCBridge ...

Macshaggy
Oct 17, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Oct 18, 2007 at 12:20 pm
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remove me from the list

Folks, I apologize for sending this as a broadcast message but I no longer have my original message with the instructions on how to unsubscribe. (It's been 5 years) Thanks for your help in advance. ...

Timothy Sluss
Oct 31, 2007 at 2:47 am
Oct 31, 2007 at 3:23 am
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Locale weirdness

As some of you may know, I'm one of the cpan-testers. I recently sent a test failure for Log-Report-0.11 on OS X. The author is most puzzled about what's happening, and once I gave him a guest ...

David Cantrell
Oct 23, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Oct 26, 2007 at 11:25 pm
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OT: non-perl dependencies (was: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!)

I'm working on that! I'm already testing it on OS X, but if anyone has access to some other proprietary Unix, eg Solaris or Irix, and has perl built with the proprietary compilers, can you please ...

David Cantrell
Oct 19, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Oct 26, 2007 at 9:45 pm
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expect perl module

Hi, So I am having a little bit of trouble with the expect module when formatting the output. It is creating too many spaces and offsetting the next printed/displayed line by 9 characters. I am not ...

Noah
Oct 24, 2007 at 6:07 am
Oct 24, 2007 at 6:17 am
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need a Little help please

Hi there, I am not able to get CPAN to reload an index. I cant seem to figure out why I cant reload the CPAN index? Even after updating the CPAN URL list - I am still unable to fetch things from ...

Noah
Oct 2, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Oct 3, 2007 at 1:00 am