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Robert - 10 Apr 2005 22:05 GMT

Does anyone know what version of Perl is shipping with the "Tiger"
release? I tried finding something on the Apple site but could not.

Robert

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Lola Lee - 10 Apr 2005 22:17 GMT

> Does anyone know what version of Perl is shipping with the "Tiger"
> release? I tried finding something on the Apple site but could not.
>
> Robert

Nobody knows, except for those who are under NDA. So we likely won't
know until it's been released. I going to venture a guess, though, that
it will hopefully be version 5.8.6.

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Joseph Alotta - 11 Apr 2005 17:13 GMT

Does anyone know when Tiger itself will be shipping?

>> Does anyone know what version of Perl is shipping with the "Tiger"
>> release? I tried finding something on the Apple site but could not.
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> know until it's been released. I going to venture a guess, though,
> that it will hopefully be version 5.8.6.

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Lola Lee - 11 Apr 2005 17:24 GMT

> Does anyone know when Tiger itself will be shipping?

Err . . . no . . . as of now, I don't see any official announcement at
http://www.apple.com. I'm sure they'll put up a special announcement on
the website when Tiger does become available. I know we are all
chomping the bits, but at least give Apple time to get it all squared
off, get the discs printed off and packaged into the lovely cardboard
boxes and shipped off to your favorite outlet.

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Joseph Alotta - 11 Apr 2005 17:45 GMT

I'm just about to buy a powerbook and I might as well wait to get Tiger
already installed.

Joe.

>> Does anyone know when Tiger itself will be shipping?
>
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> off, get the discs printed off and packaged into the lovely cardboard
> boxes and shipped off to your favorite outlet.

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Bruce Van Allen - 11 Apr 2005 18:01 GMT

On 2005-04-11 various people addressed the question:

>>> Does anyone know when Tiger itself will be shipping?

Will those suffering from can't-wait-for-the-next thing please not
infect this list?

Thanks,

- Bruce

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Joel Rees - 11 Apr 2005 23:14 GMT

As far as perl goes, I always install a parallel perl for my dev stuff,
so I don't have to mess with the system install.

If you are anxious for Tiger, you can pay USD 500 for the privilege of
testing pre-release versions. If you do lot of development for the Mac,
it's worth the price. I've done it once, just haven't been able to get
involved enough in Mac development to pay for the next one.

Found myself wondering what to do with all the CDs, also found myself
wishing I could afford more hardware for running the pre-release
software on.

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Chris Devers - 11 Apr 2005 18:08 GMT

> Does anyone know when Tiger itself will be shipping?

The rumor sites all seem to think some time this month, but the people
that actually know aren't speaking up one way or another.

Chances aren't bad that they'll use one of these events:

<http://seminars.apple.com/tradeshows/>

But really, no one (that is allowed to say) knows yet.

Your best bet is to just keep an eye on tech news sites. The release of
Tiger will surely be a headline on CNet, Slashdot, etc, and maybe even
non-tech-specific sites like CNN or the BBC.

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Lola Lee - 12 Apr 2005 15:41 GMT

> Your best bet is to just keep an eye on tech news sites. The release of
> Tiger will surely be a headline on CNet, Slashdot, etc, and maybe even
> non-tech-specific sites like CNN or the BBC.

And not a moment too soon . . . go over to http://www.apple.com/macosx/.
Release date - April 29th.

I've been looking at http://www.apple.com/macosx/developertools/ and
unfortunately it doesn't say which Perl version. Surely this tidbit is
buried elsewhere on the site?

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Ian Ragsdale - 12 Apr 2005 15:59 GMT

>> Your best bet is to just keep an eye on tech news sites. The release
>> of Tiger will surely be a headline on CNet, Slashdot, etc, and maybe
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> unfortunately it doesn't say which Perl version. Surely this tidbit
> is buried elsewhere on the site?

They often release their copies of open source stuff before the final
release, which would be found here:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/index.html

The 10.4 stuff isn't up yet, but the WWDC 2004 Developer Preview had
5.8.4 according to that page.

Ian

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Chris Devers - 12 Apr 2005 16:14 GMT

> I've been looking at http://www.apple.com/macosx/developertools/ and
> unfortunately it doesn't say which Perl version. Surely this tidbit
> is buried elsewhere on the site?

It would be nice if that page had version numbers for some of the main
Unix software they're going to be distributing: Perl, Python, Ruby, GCC,
etc. Now that a release date is imminent, maybe they can update the page
to have this information.

Didn't the promo pages for 10.3 have all of this kind of thing?

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Stephan Hochhaus - 12 Apr 2005 17:10 GMT

Am 12.04.2005 um 17:14 schrieb Chris Devers:

> It would be nice if that page had version numbers for some of the main
> Unix software they're going to be distributing: Perl, Python, Ruby,
> GCC,
> etc. Now that a release date is imminent, maybe they can update the
> page
> to have this information.

Are you looking for this?
http://www.apple.com/opensource/

Stephan

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Chris Devers - 12 Apr 2005 17:43 GMT

> Are you looking for this?
> http://www.apple.com/opensource/

That's the one!

Looks like it'll be Perl 5.8.6 then...

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Ingo Weiss - 11 Apr 2005 21:07 GMT

Hi all,

I need to re-install XML::LibXML after a harddisk failure, and I can't
remember how I did it the first time around. Here is how I tried it:
First, I installed the LibXML and LibXML2 libraries using Fink. Then, I
ran:

sudo cpan -i XML::LibXML

First it looked good, but at several points in the process got a message
of the following type:

Writing Makefile for XML::NamespaceSupport
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

I had trouble with "make" trying to install another software (remind),
too. Maybe my unix system is broken somehow? That would be strange since
it is pretty much a fresh installation.

Does anybody know what might be the problem?

Ingo

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