perl 5.8.6

[Reini Urban]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:38:38PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>Jason Pearce schrieb:
>>
>>>Reini Urban wrote:
>>>
>>>>Maybe I'll come to the pending Win32::API problem with the callbacks 
>>>>on gcc also. A simple hack30-like solution should always be possible. 
>>>>Or a fallback to C::Dynalib.
>>>>Win32::OLE didn't compile OOTB, but this is easy. Just forgot where I 
>>>>put the patch.
>>>>And your /usr/include/iodbcunix.h was wrong. Had to patch it to 
>>>>compile Win32::ODBC. Will send it later.
>>>
>>>It would be be fantastic if you can. I am making a lot of use of this 
>>>module at the moment to call third party dlls.
>>
>>Which of these three?
>>Win32::API callbacks will need some time.
>>Use the two other, better perl FFI's instead (FFI, C::Dynalib)
>>
>>For Win32::OLE there was a patch somewhere which I didn't apply nor 
>>tested yet.
>>
>>Win32::ODBC and the rest of the libwin32 suite works ok.
>>Win32::GUI also.
>>Maybe a seperate perl-tk package will be appreciated also, now that I 
>>heard that it works after applying some known patches.
>>
>>Should I publish the 5.8.5 package or wait for 5.8.6?
>>I'm quite busy with postgresql and phpwiki now.
> 
> Sounds like you provide question and answer together there.
> 
> Reini, could you email me a copy of the package source?  I'd like to
> see what you've done.  Are you aware that about 9 months ago,
> Win32.xs/Win32.pm were put into the core (and will no longer be part
> of libwin32 at some point), with some changes/additions?

Yep, I saw that, but I haven't fixed it yet.

> Also don't know if you saw I sent Gerrit a patch to automatically
> include Win32CORE functions, in the hopes that he would release
> 5.8.6 that way.  For 5.8.7 I want to get win32/wince/cygwin all
> sharing the same source for those functions and the Win32 module.

Well, let's hope that they'll raise their lazy butt.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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