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  1. 			README
  2. 			======
  3.  
  4. This extension implements an object-oriented Perl interface to the Perforce
  5. SCM System using the API supplied by Perforce software. It's a straight
  6. port of the Perforce API so not very Perl-like. The P4 module (also available
  7. from the Perforce public depot under //guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/P4/...
  8. provides a much more perl-like wrapper on top of this interface. Most people
  9. will want to install that too.
  10.  
  11. You must download and install the API before you can build this extension.
  12.  
  13. Get yer API from ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/perforce/rNN.n/bin.XXXXXX
  14.  
  15. Where NN.n is the release number ( currently 00.2 ) and XXXXX is your
  16. platform.
  17.  
  18.  
  19. Build as usual:
  20.  
  21. 	perl Makefile.PL
  22. 	make
  23. 	make test
  24. 	make install
  25.  
  26. If you have problems, see the PORTING file for likely reasons and what
  27. you should do about it.
  28.  
  29. The file example.pl has a simple example of how to use the modules to
  30. get you started.
  31.  
  32. NOTE FOR LINUX USERS
  33. --------------------
  34.  
  35. Users of recent Linux distributions who are using the linux52x86/p4api.tar 
  36. from the Perforce FTP site may get "undefined symbol __eh_pc" when running
  37. "make test".  The problem is caused by changes in the gcc compiler made 
  38. since the version shipped with Red Hat 5.2 which is used for Perforce builds.
  39.  
  40. If you get this problem, you should use the following API build instead:
  41.  
  42. 	ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/perforce/r00.1/bin.linux60x86/p4api.tar
# Change User Description Committed
#1 1011 Tony Smith Moved Perl API stuff one level down to make way for upcoming
Ruby interface. 		23 years ago
//guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/P4-Client/README
#4 929 Tony Smith Add support for form parsing to Perl API.
Allows Perforce
specs (change, client, user e...tc.) to be parsed by the API
and returned as Perl hashes rather than strings which must
be parsed by the user.

P4 module also has some new methods which make it easy to use
this feature. Sample code:

-------------------
use P4;

my $p4 = new P4;
$p4->ParseForms();
$p4->Init() or die( "Can't connect to Perforce" );

$p4->Edit( "filename" );
my $change = p4->GetChange();
$change->{ 'Description' } = "Some text";
$p4->SubmitSpec( $change );
print( $p4->ErrorCount() ? "Submit failed\n" : "Submit OK\n" );
------------------- «		 23 years ago
#3 638 Tony Smith Add a note on the __eh_pc problem to the README file 24 years ago
#2 576 Tony Smith Add an example script showing how to use the Perl API. 24 years ago
#1 549 Tony Smith Renamed the working directory to P4-Client as I've discovered
that MakeMaker is quite hap...py with that and doesn't require a
version number in the directory name. «		 24 years ago
//guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/P4-Client-0.51/README
#1 527 Tony Smith Release P4::Client version 0.51 with Win32 support 24 years ago
//guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/P4-Client-0.50/README
#2 511 Tony Smith Completed the process of renaming P4::ClientApi to P4::Client 24 years ago
#1 509 Tony Smith Renamed P4::ClientApi to P4::Client as it's more friendly and
that's what it's called on... CPAN.  Subsequent changes include
the actual renaming inside the code, this just creates the
branch «		 24 years ago
//guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/P4-ClientApi-0.05/README
#1 501 Tony Smith First publicly released version of the Perl interface to the
Perforce API. 		24 years ago