Re: Suggestion for Gunnar

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Alan Glover wrote:
>
> There are basically two variables for everyone; one is the PERL
> location, for which there are probably four or five standard choices
> at most, and the other is the filename suffix .cgi or .pl -
> everything else is configured by the user in the .pm file.
You might want to add that some people need to add the "use lib"
expression at line two, but we are still talking about very easy fixes,
aren't we? And that's the reason why I haven't even considered any
installation script or something like that.
Take for instance the .pl -> .cgi thing addressed by Sir Anvil. In DOS
you can fix it with these commands:
        copy *.pl *.cgi
        del *.pl
and there are similar commands in Unix, of course. As for the first (and
possibly second) line, we discussed it a few weeks ago, see
http://www.gunnar.cc/ringlink/mailarc/msg01226.html
BUT ...
Even if I find a feature to be unnecessary, everybody might not agree.
And a smart installation script would not hurt, I guess...
It's obvious that a few people would like to contribute more to the
Ringlink project - I think you are one of those, Alan, and I appreciate
it - but maybe I haven't given them a fair chance to do so. So I have
spent a few days exploring a site for open source projects, and decided
to make use of it for Ringlink. I'm talking about SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/.
I will let you know more about it shortly. I'm convinced that
SourceForge will make it more easy to actively involve several people in
the further development of Ringlink.
/ Gunnar