I'm going to prepare a release. While comparing the output of `make
dist' with the last tarball, I noted two problems – more to come, I
guess...
. The `gideal' preprocessor is a stub only right now, not providing
any real functionality, as far as I can see. Interestingly, it
has already version number 0.9.9 – I would rather expect 0.0.1...
For this reason I suggest that it doesn't get added to the
tarball. Bernd?
. I tried to test `gpinyin', but I get a fatal error:
Can't locate IPC/System/Simple.pm in @INC
(@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.2/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.2/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.2
/usr/lib/perl5/5.16.2/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.16.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.2/i586-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
.) at ./gpinyin line 55.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./gpinyin line 55.
I think I have a fairly normal Perl installation, and the `IPC'
module is not installed – I specifically had to install the
`perl-IPC-System-Simple' package on my openSuSE box.
Not sure how this can be solved easily. Of course, the best
solution would be that gpinyin doesn't use the IPC module (for
inter-process communication) at all – is it really necessary? And
is it portable to non-Unix hosts? Having a preprocessor not
working on Windows would be bad.
The same problem is with `gperl'.
If this IPC module is a must, what about making gpinyin emit the
following on stderr:
gpinyin: Perl module `IPC' not found. Say
XXX
to download and install this module.
Of course, this only works if there is a universal way to install
perl modules, regardless of the platform...
Werner
