Re: Proposed Mac::Pasteboard

On Feb 5, 12:38 pm, [email protected] (Tom Wyant) wrote:
> On Jan 31, 9:55 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
>
> > Since there hasn't been any further discussion for a day or so, I have
> > published Mac-Pasteboard-0.000_01 to CPAN. I suspect you'll need to
> > download by package name (WYANT/Mac-Pasteboard-0.000_01.tar.gz I
> > think; at least, WYANT is the right CPAN username) if you're using the
> > 'cpan' script.
>
> There's a problem with this software if you are running Mac OS 10.4 or
> above: the "get the real pasteboard name" functionality dies with a
> bus error. Unfortunately I found this by having my machine die and
> acquiring a new machine with 10.5, so it'll be a bit before I can put
> full time on sorting this out. The easy thing for me to do is to
> publish an update without the functionality. Until then, disable it by
> doing a 'make realclean' (or './Build realclean'), editing Makefile.PL
> and/or Build.PL to comment out the lines
>
>     $osvers >= 10.004
>         and push @ld, '-DTIGER';
>
> and rebuild. This is probably what release 0.000_02 will consist of,
> when it gets made.

I was wrong. The problem was that I didn't dereference a pointer I
should have. So version 0.000_02 has just been uploaded, with the
Tiger (and up) functionality working, instead of causing a bus error
as 0.000_01 did. In addition, a couple compiler complaints were
cleaned up.

Tom Wyant