[MacPerl-Porters] Progress Report MacPerl 5.6

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

The next release of MacPerl will have a version number that is in syc with the
main distribution again, i.e. 5.6. If I should have to turn the Macintosh code
alone, this will be labelled as 5.6m{1,2,3}.

The following tasks need to be done:

 - GUSI 2 will  (barring any showstopper bug reports) go final this weekend.
 - I've gone through the 5.005_61 distribution (a precursor to 5.6) and made
   all the source code changes needed for MacOS (this includes most of the
   library, but none of the t directory yet).
 - I'm working on the Makefile next.
 - Someone has to sync all the non-core libraries with their latest version
   and decide what to bundle (Chris, I hope).
 - Once the code is built, someone has to go through the t directory and sort
   through all the test cases to determine what works, what doesn't work but
   should, and what shouldn't work (Volunteers?).
 - The toolbox interfaces (Mac::) need to be revised to the new naming
   convention and Carbon compliance (Matthias, hopefully with testing help).
 - To use the full potential of Perl on MacOS, GUSI will have to be revised
   to support light weight processes (Matthias).

Matthias

-- 
Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
     "Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten! // Das arglose Wort ist
      toericht. Eine glatte Stirn // Deutet auf Unempfindlichkeit hin.
      Der Lachende // Hat die furchtbare Nachricht // Nur noch nicht
      empfangen." -- Bertolt Brecht, _An die Nachgeborenen_

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