The good news: the Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0 seems to work just fine under Mac OS, even the Java-based search, so I can carry several good Perl books in my bag without taking up much room. A Very Good Thing. And it is more useful to me than the previous edition, with the addition of Perl for System Administration instead of Learning Perl (of course, YMMV).
The bad news: whereas the search on the old version worked fine on Unix and had trouble on Mac OS, the new version doesn't work on Unix. At least, I can't get it to. It looks for a file "FieldedSearchApplet.class", but the file on the CD is "fieldedsearchapplet.class". So it looks like the case is broken on the files, and it will only work on case-insensitive machines. Maybe I did something wrong. If so, somebody please fix me.
Update: 06/19 15:19 PM GMT by P : Finally got the case problem figured out (read more to see the solution). Now the only problem with the CD is that I like hard copy books better than soft copies. But those won't fit on my hard drive.
Fixed, sorta
pudge on 2001-06-18T14:08:15
I found all six instances of "fieldedsearchapplet.class" (after copying the CD to my hard disk) and did `ln -s fieldedsearchapplet.class FieldedSearchApplet.class`, and it seems to work. I wonder if some of the other files have case problems too, though.
Great buy!
wickline on 2001-06-18T20:28:50
I snagged mine for $60 canadian (that's about half price) at the YAPC auction.
Best book buy I've every made.... and then my boss said to go ahead and expense it! Yippie!
I think the only change I'd make if I were ora.com would be to replace the panther (a bit aged now) with either Friedl's book (aged, but still a killer reference) or the DBI book (very wide apeal, IMO)... or maybe some other perl book to be forthcomming from O'Reilly before the CD Bookshelf 3rd edition hits the burners.
Guess I'd best send that comment to ora as well (even though I suspect gnat's reading this) to be sure it goes through the proper channels...
-matt
Re:Fixed, sorta
pvhp on 2001-06-19T06:42:34
You will probably find that the case of file
systems on CDs varies between Unix flavors.
Some (commercial) Unixes will mount an ISO 9660 filesystem and render everything in UPPERCASE,
some in MixedPreservedCase (ideal), while still others in all_lower_case. It may also depend on which version of the OS and/or patchlevel that you are at. HTH.
Peter
Re:Fixed, sorta
pudge on 2001-06-19T14:06:18
Yeah, I tried various things and couldn't get it to work. I noticed on Mac OS it was in mixed case, but it was all lower on Linux (Red Hat 6.x).
But I finally figured it out:
mount -tiso9660 -o check=r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
That works for me. Now the filesystem is case-insensitive. Yay!
Re:Great buy!
dredd on 2001-06-20T03:45:27
I suspect Friedl's book will make 3.0.. he's working on a new version as we speak. (and since it's always been an on-again-off-again, I'm going to mention it so its "out there" and he can't delay getting to it again).
:)
But seriously, I know he's doing MRE2, so probably when it comes out, ORA might consider it (although MRE is relevant to other non-perl languages as well....)
D
Why Learning Perl wasn't on this CD
merlyn on 2001-06-22T04:25:58
Learning Perl 2ed was on its last legs, and Learning Perl 3ed wasn't ready in time for press.
Otherwise, it would have been on there, I was assured. Durn, missed it by that much. {grin}
Mac OS X?
kevin on 2001-06-25T03:14:32
Anyone got the search part to work under Mac OS X? Java is disabled by default in IE 5.1, but even after enabling it the app still pukes.
I tried using the applet launcher to launch outside of a web browser but not sure I picked the right applet (nothing happened when I launched it)
Kevin
