ANNOUNCE: setld perl 5.004_04 kit (binary)

From: Robert L. Urban <urban_at_rto.dec.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 23:34:31 +0100

Hello Digital UNIX Managers,

I have made the newest (5.004_04) version of perl available as a setld
kit, along with Tk and various other extensions that seemed reasonable
to include. This kit can _ONLY_ be installed on V4.0B or greater.

The kit can be found on

        ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/PERL5004SETLD.tar

with an accompanying .readme file, which follows.

Please let me know if you have problems with the kit.

Rob Urban (urban_at_rto.dec.co)

---------------- readme -----------------

INTRODUCTION
============

This is a binary, setld format kit of Perl 5.004_04 for Digital UNIX.

This kit is _ONLY_ for Digital UNIX V4.0B or greater. It will _NOT_
install on V3.X. Sorry, but I don't have time to support all versions
of Digital UNIX. If you want a binary perl kit for V3.X, get my
PERL5003SETLD.tar kit.

The kit comprises three subsets:
        1. the Perl base kit itself
        2. the Tk extension
        3. some miscellaneous extensions that you may find useful.

See below for more information about the components.

INSTALLATION
============

create a temporary directory somewhere

        cd /var/tmp
        mkdir perl
        cd perl

untar the archive

        tar xvf /path/to/archive/PERL5004SETLD.tar

run setld

        setld -l .

select whatever subsets are desired.

cleanup

        rm -rf /var/tmp/perl

KIT LOCATION
============

        external: ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/PERL5004SETLD.tar


MORE INFO ON THE KIT COMPONENTS (SUBSETS)
=========================================

The tk and misc subsets are optional, and only depend on the base subset.
Either one or both can be installed. The sizes are as follows (uncompressed):

PRLBASE504 12504952
PRLMISC504 2871751
PRLTK504 4152060
                --------
total 19528763

Perl Base Subset:

        built on V4.0B of Digital UNIX, optimized with -O4, no -tune
        done (non architecture specific) includes h2ph'd versions of
        /usr/include/*.h, /usr/include/sys/*.h, and any others
        necessary for a "require 'sys/ioctl.ph';" to work.
        
Tk:
        This is the complete Perl/Tk release (V400.202) with two additional
        utilities for which there are manpages:
                Tk-WaitBox-1.2
                Tk-ProgressBar-1.0

        The README files for these extensions can be found in
                /usr/opt/PERL5004/doc
        

Misc:
        This is a collection of extensions which you may find useful.
        The latest release was copied from the CPAN at the time this
        kit was produced (November, '97). Any dependencies of an
        extension on other extensions were satisfied. All extensions
        have _not_ been tested.

        CGI-modules-2.76 - possibly useful for writing CGI scripts
        Data-Dumper-2.07 - automatically dump data structures
        HTML-Stream-1.40 - automates writing HTML docs
        MD5-1.7 - cryptographic checksums
        MIME-Base64-2.03 - MIME equiv of uuencode
        MIME-parser-1.13 - aids parsing MIME messages
        MIME-tools-3.204 - tools for parsing and creating MIME entities
        MailTools-1.09 - related to mail (e.g., RFC822 header parsing)
        POP3Client-1_15 - act as POP client
        Time-HiRes-01.14 - access to usec kernel routines (gettimeofday)
        TimeDate-1.07 - time/date parsing routines
        libnet-1.0601 - client API to various IP protocols
        libwww-perl-5.15 - client (and other) API to WWW

        The README files for these extensions can be found in
                /usr/opt/PERL5004/doc

Please let me know if there are problems,

Rob Urban (urban_at_rto.dec.com)
Received on Mon Nov 24 1997 - 23:54:39 NZDT

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