RE: VMS::Persona

Hi Craig,

Reading my mail newer to older, sorry.

One thought is to leave VMS-persona-1_01
and document that it will not work beyond
vms 7.3-1, or on VAX (where I can't do
any testing).

The redesigned module should have a new name,
such as VMS::Assume_Persona, although I'm open
to suggestions (that's an unwieldy name). It
should be different enough to avoid any
possible confusion. Even raising the version
of VMS::Persona to 2.x would probably not be
appropriate.

I'll have a look at Mark Daniel's site, and
also check out 

http://www.eight-cubed.com/examples/framework.php?file=sys_persona.c

I'll be glad to engage Peter Prymmer in this
effort.

Carl Friedberg
[email protected]
www.esb.com
The Elias Book of Baseball Records
2009 Edition 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: Carl Friedberg
> Cc: 'VMSperl Mailing List'
> Subject: 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/>
> 
> ________________________________________
> Craig A. Berry
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> 
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