Re: Steering people away from GtkPerl (was: passing arguments to the)

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2005-04-12 18:40]:
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 9:13 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >Further, Patrice le Borgne who offers a french tutorial[4]
> >could also be asked.
> 
> Patrice has a gtk2-perl tutorial...  linked from 
> http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/links/
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gtk2-perl/Gtk2perl_tutoriel.html

That’s nice – now hopefully he could add a notice to the GtkPerl
tutorial that people should not be using this anymore? :-)

> One address came back "User Unknown", the other "Mailbox
> Inactive".  This is pretty much the same situation as late
> 2003.  I can't find any info about him after 2002 with google.
> I wonder if he's okay...

Ugh. With the URL looking like a free webspace provider’s dig, I
guess the page won’t be going away anytime soon either.

> I see the same thing.  Last i recall, the hosting was donated
> (according to the site) and my emails to the webmaster (from
> 2003 to this winter) were never answered.

So I guess we can expect it to remain offline.

What about my comments on a hostile takeover of the CPAN distro?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle
“Like punning, programming is a play on words.”
   – Alan J. Perlis, “Epigrams in Programming”