Kracked Internet Services » perl http://kracked.com The K in K-Rad Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:10:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Finally a good perl IDE for OS X! http://kracked.com/finally-a-good-perl-ide-for-os-x/ http://kracked.com/finally-a-good-perl-ide-for-os-x/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:02:25 +0000 Christian Bolstad http://bloggy.kracked.com/2007/06/11/finally-a-good-perl-ide-for-os-x/ For years I’ve been using the fantastic editor SubEthaEdit for all my development work in OS X. I use it for pretty much everything: editing html, text files,  code perl and php stuff, but I’ve always missed good perl integration. It has been anoying to switch to a terminal window just to debug perl code when php editing is so swift.

A few days ago I stumbled over Affrus and it was love at first sight.

Affrus offer stepped execution with breakpoints and a whole bunch of advanced features  that I miss from the well built Borland ide’s back in the DOS-days. The registration cost is almost $100 – but I’m happy to pay that when the evaluation period is over!

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Now and then I need to install perl modules outside the regular library dirs. Most often because of an temporary installation in userspace but also when I use FINK to quickly install complex bundles on my powerbook. Since it’s most often just is a temporary installation for debugging or development purposes I’ve coped with adding an extra -I parameter to the shebang. Until last night when I fell over this monster API from hell. Not only did it demand an enormous amount of dependencies to be installed – it looked like every goddamn single 4-row test program and module needed each one of them.

For evaluating I would have to spend the whole night modifying source code. So I said “fuck it” and googled away.

The solution was of course painfully simple.

In ten years of tinkering with Apache I’ve managed to miss the directive that loads the mod_env module which can be use
to modify the environment variables that is set before calling CGI-scripts. Two rows to uncomment and asimple directive to add to the config:

SetEnv PERL5LIB “/path/to/libs”

mod_env’s directives can even be used in .htaccess overrides. Damn. After all these years …

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