Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.06-1

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Dr. Volker Zell schrieb:
> > > > > > Reini Urban writes:
>     > I've updated perl-Win32-GUI to the new upstream release,
>     > for the current stable perl-5.8.8.
>
> win32-gui-demos.pl doesn't core dump anymore but the demos don't run
> from the launcher script.
>
> Running them directly from the commandline works.

Yes, the upstream launcher is still broken, and I didn't want to
fix that.
My hackish patch would have been:

diff -bu win32-gui-demos.pl~ ./win32-gui-demos.pl
--- win32-gui-demos.pl~ 2008-02-15 19:26:31.001000000 +0000
+++ ./win32-gui-demos.pl        2008-02-16 15:33:01.265625000 +0000
@@ -445,9 +445,10 @@
     #    warn "Failed to start \"$options->{current}\": $^E" unless 
$result;
     #}
     #else {
+       # Win32::GUI::ShellExecute(window, operation, file, parameters, 
director
y, showcmd)
         my $result = $control->ShellExecute("open",
             #$options->{wperl} ? $options->{perl} : $options->{perl},
-            $options->{perl},
+            "perl.exe",
             "$extra_opts \"$options->{current}\"",
             "", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
     #}

> By the way, is there any reason the cygwin specific README is empty.

Oops.
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