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Chris Sharman
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Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:
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I tried to install VMS::IndexedFile with CPAN - it went into a CPU loop.
I killed it, and tried again.
It crashed with an out of memory error.
I tried from the system account.
I cleared the lock file, and tried installing the Bundle::CPAN it
recommmended.
This gave an RMS-F-SYN error, then spooled a large chunk of code to the
terminal, then complained that makefile.pl was missing and tried to make it.
It failed.
VMS::IndexedFile now gave the same error.
I installed VMS::IndexedFile manually.
Is there something I need to do to make cpan install work ?
Is VMS::IndexedFile the best/only way to read by key ? (it seems very
old - version 0.02 from April 1999)
Thanks
Chris
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Craig A. Berry
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Joined: 27 May 2005
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Re: Module install
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At 1:42 PM +0000 2/9/06, Chris Sharman wrote:
| Quote: | I tried to install VMS::IndexedFile with CPAN - it went into a CPU loop.
I killed it, and tried again.
It crashed with an out of memory error.
I tried from the system account.
I cleared the lock file, and tried installing the Bundle::CPAN it
recommmended.
This gave an RMS-F-SYN error, then spooled a large chunk of code to the
terminal, then complained that makefile.pl was missing and tried to make it.
It failed.
VMS::IndexedFile now gave the same error.
I installed VMS::IndexedFile manually.
Is there something I need to do to make cpan install work ?
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Port it. There was a version of CPAN that worked on VMS a long time
ago, but it's a very large, complex, and rapidly changing package
that needs to know a lot about things like the local filesystem, and
probably assumes more than it should about such things. Given the
relative ease of installing any given module manually and the
relative difficulty of getting CPAN working and keeping it working,
no one that I'm aware of has bothered to maintain CPAN on VMS. There
is also now CPANPLUS, which I believe also awaits porting to VMS.
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Is VMS::IndexedFile the best/only way to read by key ? (it seems very
old - version 0.02 from April 1999)
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I've used it some with no issues. The RMS API still works as it
always has, so I'm not aware of any reason the package would need
updating.
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Craig A. Berry
mailto:craigberry@mac.com
"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
difficult than getting in."
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Thomas Pfau
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Dec 2005
Posts: 7
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:
Re: Module install
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Chris Sharman wrote:
| Quote: | Is VMS::IndexedFile the best/only way to read by key ? (it seems very
old - version 0.02 from April 1999)
I use VMS::IndexedFile to access the indexed files on my system. The |
only issue I have with it is the fact that there's no way to change
which key you access a file through after you open the file except to
tie another hash. Other than that, I agree with Craig - it works and
there's no reason to update it.
I wrote a couple of modules to layer on top of this to make things a
little easier. Look for VMS::FlatFile and Data::FixedFormat in CPAN.
Recently someone mentioned an SMG module. I think there was another RMS
module in the same author's directory. That's the only other RMS module
I've ever seen. |
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Carl Friedberg
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 16 Aug 2005
Posts: 36
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject:
RE: Module install
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(you've heard this before) that was me, and I did get
SMG to build, after chasing my tail for too long.
I am leaving for a vacation, but when I get back I
should finally be able to put it back up on CPAN.
It will have a position in the VMS namespace, e.g.
VMS_SMG or something along those lines, unless there
are objects. I'll post here before I put it up in
CPAN.
Carl Friedberg
carl.friedberg@comets.com
+1.212.233.5470
www.comets.com
| Quote: | -----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Pfau [mailto:pfau@nbpfaus.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:57 PM
To: Chris Sharman
Cc: vmsperl@perl.org
Subject: Re: Module install
Chris Sharman wrote:
Is VMS::IndexedFile the best/only way to read by key ? (it
seems very
old - version 0.02 from April 1999)
I use VMS::IndexedFile to access the indexed files on my system. The
only issue I have with it is the fact that there's no way to change
which key you access a file through after you open the file except to
tie another hash. Other than that, I agree with Craig - it works and
there's no reason to update it.
I wrote a couple of modules to layer on top of this to make things a
little easier. Look for VMS::FlatFile and Data::FixedFormat in CPAN.
Recently someone mentioned an SMG module. I think there was
another RMS
module in the same author's directory. That's the only other
RMS module
I've ever seen.
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