Re: Path to Perl

[Gary.Foster@Corp (Gary D. Foster)]

>>>>> "AGCS" == Alistair G C Stewart <- Senior Systems Engineer - City of London" <Alistair.Stewart@UK>> writes:

    AGCS> I totally agree with Darren that it's about time that we had
    AGCS> a new version of Perl installed in /usr/dist. How do we go
    AGCS> about getting that done? Is anyone from ENS listening?

Well, part of it I will take the blame for... that CEperl5 package
that everyone is installing is my creation, and I didn't symlink perl5 
to perl in the bin directory.  Never even thought about it, actually.

The easy fix (for now) is for me to recreate the package.  I've
updated the package anyway to include a huge percentage of the perl
modules from CPAN preinstalled... I have no idea if you guys are
installing the old version I made or the newer version of the CEperl5
package that I updated a month or so ago.  However, I will go ahead
and rebuild the package anyway and make the symlink.  Hell, I might as 
well throw a few more modules in there while I'm at it.  :)

That will solve the problem of the people who are installing the
package in order to get a robust perl package for pilot support.
There's a few things that should also be done though.

1) Everyone who's currently using perl from /opt/PERL/... (the CEperl5 
   package) could/should just go make a symlink in /opt/PERL/bin and
   link perl5 to perl (there's "perl" and "perl5.00404" in there right 
   now).

2) Gary (me) will fix the CEperl package to do this in the future and
   will publish a URL for the package (yes, I will make this package
   available outside sun for you people not on SWAN.  It's
   sparc/solaris only, although it runs on 2.5.1 and greater).

3) People should always make sure they get the canonical package from
   me, to make sure they get the latest and greatest.  I support this
   package UNOFFICIALLY, along with all the other tools that I make
   available.

4) If you use any of my packages or any of the tools off of my own two 
   tool servers (/net/legba.corp and /net/suntools.corp) PLEASE
   subscribe to my tools alias by going to:

	http://legba.corp/cgi-bin/do_aliases

   and subscribing to the "tools" alias.  This is the alias that I use 
   to provide UNOFFICIAL support, announcements, etc. about stuff like 
   this.

5) We could/should probably get together and fix the distribution on
   softdist as well.  However, softdist politics being what they are,
   this isn't always a viable solution, especially when rapid updates
   and/or changes need to be made.  I will continue to maintain
   suntools.corp and am migrating things from legba.corp (which is my
   workstation) to the suntools.corp server.  The stuff on there can
   get updated a little quicker than softdist since they have
   thousands and thousands of people to support and it's their real
   job, while I only support _hundreds_ and it's a labor of love (yep, 
   I don't get paid for it... *sigh*).

Thanks, everyone!  And please make sure that feedback about this stuff
gets back to me so that I can continue to enhance the things that I
provide... I'm perfectly happy to do the infrastructure work while the
Pilotmgr people get all the (deservedly so) glory.  However, I don't
know about problems like this unless somebody tells me!

-- Gary F.

-- 
"One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for 
it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; and so he religiously
devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material 
of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen..."
	-- Henry David Thoreau
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