X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq2.pod;h=af9178dee1baa27baace28f91d6c41c7a1b7638a;hb=d11915b82a23265566d9643e95935294732103a8;hp=80b150d89c570d60f12d5228b3106619f17528df;hpb=f6c51b389910b77209d1e0aab75a3e597d6b9311;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index 80b150d..af9178d 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ get free compilers for, not for Unix systems. Some URLs that might help you are: http://language.perl.com/info/software.html - http://www.perl.com/latest/ + http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#binary http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/ Someone looking for a Perl for Win16 might look to Laszlo Molnar's djgpp @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ a star may be ordered from O'Reilly. by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan =item Tutorials - + *Learning Perl [2nd edition] by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen with foreword by Larry Wall @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ following list is I the complete list of CPAN mirrors. http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local http://www.perl.com/CPAN (redirects to an ftp mirror) - http://www.perl.org/CPAN + ftp://cpan.valueclick.com/pub/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ following list is I the complete list of CPAN mirrors. Most of the major modules (Tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for -subscription information. Perl Mongers attempts to maintain a +subscription information. The Perl Mongers attempt to maintain a list of mailing lists at: http://www.perl.org/support/online_support.html#mail @@ -358,10 +358,6 @@ best archives. Just look up "*perl*" as a newsgroup. You'll probably want to trim that down a bit, though. -ftp.cis.ufl.edu:/pub/perl/comp.lang.perl.*/monthly has an almost -complete collection dating back to 12/89 (missing 08/91 through -12/93). They are kept as one large file for each month. - You'll probably want more a sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism than a file listing, preferably one that allows you to retrieve articles using a fast-access indices, keyed on at least author, date, @@ -393,32 +389,29 @@ on them, as do the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor and in the proprietary Microsoft flavor); the free Unix distributions also all come with Perl. -Or you can purchase a real support contract. Although Cygnus historically -provided this service, they no longer sell support contracts for Perl. -Instead, the Paul Ingram Group will be taking up the slack through The -Perl Clinic. The following is a commercial from them: - -"Do you need professional support for Perl and/or Oraperl? Do you need -a support contract with defined levels of service? Do you want to pay -only for what you need? - -"The Paul Ingram Group has provided quality software development and -support services to some of the world's largest corporations for ten -years. We are now offering the same quality support services for Perl -at The Perl Clinic. This service is led by Tim Bunce, an active perl -porter since 1994 and well known as the author and maintainer of the -DBI, DBD::Oracle, and Oraperl modules and author/co-maintainer of The -Perl 5 Module List. We also offer Oracle users support for Perl5 -Oraperl and related modules (which Oracle is planning to ship as part -of Oracle Web Server 3). 20% of the profit from our Perl support work -will be donated to The Perl Institute." - -For more information, contact The Perl Clinic: - - Tel: +44 1483 424424 - Fax: +44 1483 419419 - Web: http://www.perl.co.uk/ - Email: perl-support-info@perl.co.uk or Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk +Or you can purchase commercial incidence based support through the Perl +Clinic. The following is a commercial from them: + +"The Perl Clinic is a commercial Perl support service operated by +ActiveState Tool Corp. and The Ingram Group. The operators have many +years of in-depth experience with Perl applications and Perl internals +on a wide range of platforms. + +"Through our group of highly experienced and well-trained support engineers, +we will put our best effort into understanding your problem, providing an +explanation of the situation, and a recommendation on how to proceed." + +Contact The Perl Clinic at: + + www.PerlClinic.com + + North America Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) + Tel: 1 604 606-4611 hours 8am-6pm + Fax: 1 604 606-4640 + + Europe (GMT) + Tel: 00 44 1483 862814 + Fax: 00 44 1483 862801 See also www.perl.com for updates on tutorials, training, and support.