Re: shiptool v0.18 has been released

Hi,

I have tried it on Mac OS X, but there are problems with getting
Perl/Tk to compile with the existing Darwin dynamic loader.

Of course, getting to that point took a while, and I tried
recompiling the dynamic loader to enable multiply defined
symbols, hosed my system, was able to go to backups and
decided to leave it at that. I expect that someone who is
much more familiar with Perl and Tk will sort this out.

My conclusion was that it was not for the faint of heart...

Cheers,
Tony Christney

On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 02:09  AM, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Why should you use 0.18 rather than 0.17?
>
> Well, this isn't a big upgrade. In fact, the functional differences
are
> minimal. However, thanks to Jerry Acord, there are now Windows
binaries
> available; Windows users need no longer install Perl to use the
shiptool
> package. (It's a bigger download, of course.)
>
> For those of you who haven't tried it, the shiptool suite is a full
> FT2.5 ship design, fleet management and SSD printing package, which
> supports all FB1 and FB2 rules. It will run on any system with Perl/Tk
> installed - I develop it under Linux. (Being fair, I don't think
anyone
> has tried with MacPerl yet. Anybody?)
>
> http://firedrake.org/roger/ft/shiptool.html
>
> As always, if you want features I haven't provided or if you find
bugs,
> please get in touch.
>
> Roger