Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / March 2005

Hi old friends (and new),
I'm quite enjoying getting back to scripting, and like Perl a lot,
especially with Affrus.  While I'm probably inefficient, it's nice to
have a language actually designed for text processing (search engine

I'm new round here (just bought a new Mac with Mac OS 10.3.5). I want
to build perl apps that can have things dropped on them and display
alerts and file chooser dialogues.
What's the least I need to know and where should I start to look for

The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta1.dmg?
download>
What is ShuX?

Apache & mod_perl 2 are much easier to configure and install than  
versions 1.x, but even so it has taken quite a while for me to get this  
right. In case other people are considering this route, here's what  
I've learned:

Hi all,
yet I'm trying to get througth Camel Bones, and to
learn it.
While I'm making a small app, the "open" item from the

This is the first beta of ShuX 3.0. It's all-new, rewritten from the  
ground up to use the new features in the upcoming release of CamelBones  
1.0. It uses Cocoa Bindings, which require Mac OS X 10.3, aka  
"Panther".

I wouldn't mind having a dedicated OS X Pod viewer -- can I download
Shux by itself without downloading a big old package of other stuff?
If so, I can't find it!

This is only somewhat off topic, but I was wondering
if there were any packages out there for Mac OS X with
the necessary development C headers for libxml2 and
libxslt? I can only seem to find rpms of the same. If

I've recently installed Perl 5.8.6 into /usr/local/bin whilst keeping the System 5.6.0 (this on Jag) and whenever I try to install a module ( a la `perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo:Bar') CPAN is using 5.6.0.
What's the easiest way to get CPAN to use 5.8.6?
Cheers,
Regards,

does anyone have sample code using Mac::Speech ?
examples ?
thank you
jmcs3

Hi all. I'm busy setting up to run (okay, play with) CGIs. So for, not
so great.
According to the Apache error logs, I'm connecting okay, but something
seems to

I have spent hours trying to install LWP on my Powerbook. I have installed the
new developer tools in case the c compiler was a problem but being a novice to
unix/ perl, etc I am now completely lost.
The first thing I try is

Is anyone interested in a CamelBones CVS snapshot?
The framework is *not* in a release-quality state. It leaks memory
rather badly. It hasn't been tested very much on Tiger, and not at all
on Jaguar. There is no build target for an app-embedded framework yet.

First, thanks again for all who helped me with sorting dates with
Date::Manip. That's working great.
I have another question. Below is a "sample" of a larger script. I have
it working great, but I'm pretty sure the sorting and manipulation of

I'm having problems with Cpan, I'm new to this and I think I've messed  
something up. I have installed a couple of modules ok, including  
LWP::UserAgent which I just installed as per the default install, I now  
know this can cause problems. I'm now trying to install SOAP::Lite ...