Re: Sys::Syslog stuff

["Kurt D. Starsinic" <kstar@chapin.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:03:49AM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> > Andy, is there some reason why not to make this the default, so people
> > don't have to read the INSTALL directions and take special steps to make
> > it happen?  Couldn't one invert the logic and make not doing so the
> > exception instead? 
> 
> The reason I never made it the default is buried deeply in my vendor_lib
> reply, but I'll repeate it here since it's more relevant here:
> 
> It used to be that h2ph was simply too unreliable (or, putting it another
> way, vendors were too unreliable and kept changing headers in ways that
> confused h2ph) so that we couldn't have installperl run h2ph by default
> unless we were prepared to deal with torrents of bug reports and
> complaints.
> 
> I haven't paid attention to this issue in several years, however.  
> Perhaps Kurt's work on h2ph has brought us to the point where it's worth
> reconsidering.  (Not so much to support the core distribution, which
> should in principle be changed to not need h2ph, but to support existing
> programs.)

    It's not quite there, but it's very close.  Since starting my new job,
I have become an anti-tuit emitter, but I plan to have a definitive patch
for h2ph (and a tentative auto-compile-and-install option) for _64.

    Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar@orientation.com) ---------- Senior Network Engineer *
|    `The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and     |
|     intelligent.  The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.'      |
|                            -- Marshall McLuhan                            |

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

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