Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Dana Hudes
Solaris Perl is compiled using the Sun C compiler since at least Solaris 8. Once known as Forte now Solaris Studio. IDK what Perl on Moc OS X is compiled with but suspect not gcc. A LOT of people write Perl on Mac. Not everyone runs Linux. It is completely legitimate to have CPAN modules which

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Dana Hudes
Linux isn't the only widely supported unix. FrreBSD , NetBSD have their adherents. Solaris is pretty widely used just not among consumers / desktops. Then you have Mac OS X which isn't exactly unix but is unix-like in many aspects (has a bash shell, you can use vi or emacs and of course perl).

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote: > Dana Hudes wrote: > >BTW not everyone uses gcc. > What compiler on linux -- where perl was born, would you suggest? Other compilers are available for Linux. I leave finding them as an exercise for you. You will no doubt find it to be a h

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 01:27:08PM +, Dana Hudes wrote: > Finally, Perl runs on Windows. There are a number of Windows-specific Perl > modules. And don't forget that there are at least three different Windows environments these days! Win32, Cygwin, and "Interix" (what used to be Services Fo

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Linda W
David Cantrell joked: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote: Dana Hudes wrote: BTW not everyone uses gcc. [[ What compiler on unix-- where perl was born, that is as freely available as perl and the modules on cpan, itself would you suggest I use? ]] O

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote: > David Cantrell joked: > >On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote: > >>[[ What compiler on unix-- where perl was born " liar liar pants on fire " That's not what you wrote. Nor is it what I quoted. > Or would you like to

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote: > > The assertion was that such a thing does not. It is is incumbent > upon you, who want to refute that > assertion to provide at least 1 example to disprove the general > assertion. Claiming it is a research > opportunity (becaus

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
What, no mention of LLVM/Clang? :-( I have been meaning to try that myself. I have also had great success using TCC (Tiny C Compiler) in the past, which does x86 compilation. Cheers, Jonathan On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Li

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Dec 5, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote: > >> >>The assertion was that such a thing does not. It is is incumbent >> upon you, who want to refute that >> assertion to provide at least 1 example to disprove the general >> a

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Linda W
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote: The assertion was that such a thing does not. It is is incumbent upon you, who want to refute that assertion to provide at least 1 example to disprove the general assertion. Claiming it is a research o

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Linda W
David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote: David Cantrell joked: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote: [[ What compiler on unix-- where perl was born " liar liar pants on fire " That's not what you wrote. No

Solaris Studio (was Re: The CPAN Morass)

2011-12-05 Thread dhudes
To download stuff from Oracle you have to register with them (free) and agree to their license terms. Download Solaris Studio from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/downloads/index-jsp-141149.html This is not just C/C++ it is also a Java compiler and Netbeans and IIRC

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Linda W
Started this, this morning before any of 'today's emails...just never finished it.. Seems pertinent with the talk of alternate packages that only work with alternate compilers -- especially those that are limited in the platforms they support (Gnu is on Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, Irix, et