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Lobster · Posted: Sat 03 Jun 2006, 23:24 Post subject: Speaking of Perl

We now have Perl

Does that mean we can have programs like this?
http://www.danga.com/perlbal/

not even sure what that does Embarassed

eh . . . now what?

rarsa · Posted: Sat 03 Jun 2006, 23:44 Post subject:

Now what you ask?

Now I'll be able to put some time improving the Network wizard to simplify the ndiswrapper process Wink

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

Lobster · Posted: Sun 04 Jun 2006, 04:08 Post subject: Perl tutorial

Does that mean Puppy will be something like this eventually?
http://publicip.net/zonecd/what.php

Can we now have Puppy voice control - that would be cool
http://www.perlbox.org/

anyways a Perl tutorial for those so inclined Smile

http://www.webdesigns1.com/perl/

wilcal · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 14 Location: San Diego, CA

Lobster · Posted: Mon 06 Aug 2007, 12:39 Post subject: Re: Perl tutorial

rajeshh · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 32

I get this error : Cannot find Errno.pm on my 2.16 when trying to run a perl script that uses the Socket class. I didnt install the dev_216.sfs. Do I need to?

Anyone else seeing the same?

jonyo · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2727

Is there a perl dotpup?

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 07:27 Post subject:

Perl is included in devx_2xx.sfs

If you do not use that, here are dotpups:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4193
Mark

jonyo · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2727

Thx. I'm trying to sort out (i think it goes like this..) using ndiswrapper that requires setting up with perl, in pup 98 that's based on 1x variant of pup.

Would mini-perl work for that?

MU · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 11:36 Post subject:

I'm not shure about the requirements.

You could start with mini, then try midi, if mini is not sufficient.
If even that fails, the full pack.
Mark

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2025

What all is required for a mini or micro installation of perl -can you do anything at all with just the main binary?
About voice control, I just got cvoicecontrol working on my minimal-install of slackware the other day. Looks very promising.

MU · Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2007, 20:02 Post subject:

you could run cgi-programs, as long as they don't depend on additional modules.

I currently work on a chat with someone else, here it is:
http://noforum.de/chat/

It might work with the small ghttpd and the minimalistic perl, but I did not try that yet.
Currently I used xampp for development.
But it should not rely on any modules like CGI.

Mark

jonyo · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2727

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2025

In answer ro my own question about microperl, I recently did some work on minimizing the perl installation and have gotten a pretty workable install of around 2.5MB (without upx-ing bins). I did find out that microperl will work with only a few .pm files present, but actually the regular perl binary is smaller and can run with just a few .pm files around. However, most users probably need a few more than the minimum installed. I've been running it under test conditions where I compile lots of software and often use the 'autoreconf -if' command which runs the whole gamut of autoconf-automake scripts and needs a few extra things. I haven't included any CGI or XML stuff though, so far. If anyone is interested in this I'll upload my Slackware package. Or, for the record, you cn start with a minimum package consisting of the files in the debian perl-base package and go from there. The fukll slackware package for perl is around 33MB, so getting it down to around 2MB is quite an improvement. I first wanted and tried to do this about 2 years ago and finaly got back to it last week....