RE: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle > Sent: 21 August 2004 05:10 > > >So really, textmode support is unavoidable, or else all the ported > > >tools have to be made aware of possible CR-NL line endings.. > > > > Well, nearly any native UNIX tool would

RE: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > >>The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot > >>handle binmode (unix) textfiles. > > > >Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. > > > >Ironically, cvs is

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot >>handle binmode (unix) textfiles. > >Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. > >Ironically, cvs is one of them: if yo

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot handle binmode (unix) textfiles. Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. Ironically, cvs is one of them: if you have a binmode mount, and run a *native* cvs (e.g. cvsnt) that writes a

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:13 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:08:57PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >>>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it i

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:08:57PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>>Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >>>mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. >> >>Full ACK!

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. > >Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. > >Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode > mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project already long ago and they probably don'

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Thomas schrieb: > Gerrit: Compress::Zlib is *not* included in perl-5.8.5, > maybe that triggered the problem I see, thanks for the (packaging) bug report. Will fix it ASAP. > As to the binmode issue (as in Stephan's situation I'm > running a completely text mode installation): > I introduced a

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Thomas schrieb: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Hi Stephan & Gerrit, > My original reply to the cygwin list somehow did not arrive, > thus the personal mail. > | I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP. > | > | But when it does "Scanning cache /ho

RE: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-18 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Stephan Petersen > Sent: 18 August 2004 14:41 > Hi guys, > > I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP. > > But when it does "Scanning cache /home/sp/.cpan/build for sizes", see > below, it chokes with (see

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Stephan wrote: > Hi guys, > I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP. > But when it does "Scanning cache /home/sp/.cpan/build for sizes", see > below, it chokes with (see output below): > /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header > /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolesc