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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: metaconfig
Message-ID: <10208@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Nov 90 19:10:25 GMT
References: <9010311425.AA12640@se01.iitb.fhg.de>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <9010311425.AA12640@se01.iitb.fhg.de> na@iitb.fhg.de (Reinhold Nagel) writes:
: Lately I have seen requests for "metaconfig" which I think is just the
: package I need for a job I have to do here.

It's part of another package called "dist".  An ancient version of it can
be found on this machine.

: My questions:
: *Does* a package "metaconfig" exist, that contains more than is already in
: the perl-kits?

The package you can currently ftp has some units not used by Perl, and Perl
has some units not in that version of metaconfig.

: When will there be the new (the first) release of such a package?

Hopefully a new version can be produced pretty soon, but I can't promise
at what time, since it's a back burner project.  Hokey has been working it
over, regularizing it and such, and I hope to use his version when I switch
to Perl 4.0.

Larry