On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi; > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Practices". Most of the > scripts are executed on Windows and some of them are executed on a Mac > and some are executed on Linux. There is apparently a massive amount > of dead code and duplicate code. There are weird dependencies here > and there on Cygwin. Apparently there was an earlier (still present?) > dependency on MKTools. Some scripts need to be modified prior to > first build on a new branch. The builds sometimes work fine and > sometimes fail in strange ways. > > It would be nice if there was a trace facility built-in to Perl that > I could enable that would tell me each line number of each script that > was currently executing. > > I'd love to replace all the Active State Perl code with either > Cygwin Perl or Strawberry Perl. Of course I'd like to replace the > Windows machines with Linux, but that's not going to happen :-) > > One of the strange things I see happening is that a path construct > of "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\filename" (not quoted in the script is being > parsed as "c:\dir1\di2filename" which seems strange. Another > situation that seems strange is the use of three backslashes together. > I thought that if you had to backslash a backslash it would always > come in pairs. What is strange is that this thing works sometimes and > then doesn't work sometimes. > > Now I'm here late at work trying to figure out why the build > infrastructure is broken. > > Thanks, > Ken Wolcott
Of course we don't have the Active State Perl Debugger activated, as apparently that requires a license, which apparently is too expensive. Would be nice to be able to use Cygwin Perl or Strawberry Perl or even Linux Perl so that I'd have a debugger. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
