Re: [MacPerl-Porters] perl internals as shared library?

[Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca]

Quoting Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>:

> BTW I never got to respond to the request for comments on the CFM68k 
> discontinuation: I'd like to retain it (I do use it) but I would prefer
> that anything that slowed down MacPerl development be skipped, including 
> the code fragment manager if necessary.
> 
Agreed, absolutely.

> I am perhaps somewhat less informed of vapourous things than you hence I am
> 
> less qualified to answer your rhetorical quesiton.  Nonetheless, repeating
> what I said above: building with MWC does not preclude the construction of
> an MPW-tool-type perl for which `perl Makefile.PL` in the MPW shell 
> makes perfect sense.  I've never encountered another perl platform for
> which
> building perl with one compiler works without a hitch to build non-trivial
> XS modules using a different compiler though.
> 
Codewarrior has no difficulty producing MPW tools.  What concerns me is, if
the MacPerl build process goes over to the CW IDE as a CW project, how
does the 'Makefile.PL' based extension-building process fit in? Or are we
still going to maintain much of the BuildProgram infrastructure just for
this purpose?

I too would like to help out in any way I can - but that may 
> not be much for a variety of reasons.  I think we all (on this list anyway)
> 
> owe it to Matthias to try our hardest to build MacPerl from the src kit and
> 
> *then* speculate about how it might be changed :-)
> 
Yeah, I agree, to an extent. The problem being, the "source kit" that it
makes sense to try and build from hasn't arrived yet. :-)

Personally I think I'm going to revisit the whole extension-building
thing and see what brilliant ideas I can think of. :-)

> nsaccess?  What wiseacre named that computer? :-)
> 
Some bureaucrat who had absolutely no idea of where that name also figures. 
"Nova Scotia Access" - makes perfect sense to an official. :-)

Arved


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