Re: VMS::Persona

On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been slogging through various VMS modules
> which I am building on perl 5.10.0., VMS 8.3,
> Alpha.
>
> Is anyone using VMS::Persona? If not, I'll quit
> here.
>
> I've found a number of issues. After this module
> was initially released by Dan Sugalski (before
> 2000), there have been some significant changes
> to the way the VMS system services behave. The
> 3 services are
>
> PERSONA_ASSUME
> PERSONA_CREATE
> PERSONA_DELETE
>
> If anyone is actually using this xs module, then
> I will be happy to dig into this and figure out
> how to deal with the newer interpretation.


I've had a request or two to have it do things it can't.  I started to  
look at it once and realized what you have, which is that the  
interfaces it depends on changed so radically that it really needs a  
redesign, not just a touch-up.  If you have time to work on it, please  
do.  Mark Daniels' mondesi package has up-to-date examples of calling  
these services:

<http://wasd.vsm.com.au/ht_root/src/mondesi/>

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