Re^2: Have you netted a Perl Monk or Perl Pretender in 5 minutes or less?

[merlyn]

Do you remember which version of perl was the first one you ever used?

Version 1.0, released 12/18/1987. I think I unpacked it a few weeks later from the multiple Usenet parts, and built it.

What version are you using now?

When maintperl is being updated (as it has begun again recently), I daily run my "get.snap" script which does:

/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-5.8
+.x/ /opt/perl/snap/MIRROR/

And then when I detect useful changes, I run /opt/perl/snap/src-sync-config:

#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/perl/snap || exit 1
rsync -av --delete MIRROR/ src/
## darnit I want one-level namespaces
echo ... PATCHING src/hints/darwin.sh ...
perl -pi-DIST -e 's/\[2-6/\[2-9/' src/hints/darwin.sh
cd src || exit 1
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin ./Configure -des -Duseshrplib -Dusedevel \
  -Uversiononly -Dprefix=/opt/perl/snap \
  -Dlocincpth=/sw/include -Dloclibpth=/sw/lib \
  -Dperladmin=[e-mail]

followed by "make all test install" in the src directory. The last few days, "make test" fails on OSX, so I have to horse around doing the install manually.

Then I run "cpan-r", described in a recent magazine article of mine, to run the CPAN shell using Expect, executing the "r" command and automatically updating all out-of-date modules.

Do I get the job? {grin}