Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Progress Report MacPerl 5.6

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 7:35 +0200 1999.10.21, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
> - GUSI 2 will  (barring any showstopper bug reports) go final this weekend.

Yay!

> - 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).

Now you just need to make the changes for 5.005_62.  ;-)

Also, the library stuff will need some a lot of testing done on them, I am
sure.  Some of these new modules have never been used with MacPerl before
(Thread and Test come to mind immediately) and some have never worked
(Sys::Syslog) (this falls under your testing thing below).


> - 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).

Sure.  I'll plan on all of the libraries that are bundled now, plus the
stuff in cpan-mac.


> - 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?).

What I would like to do is make a list of every module (core and non-core)
that we are bundling, along with links to the current source or
distribution, and note on each whether or not it needs to be modified,
notes with what modifications need to be made, etc. ad nauseum.


> - 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).

Also, we need documentation reworkage; primarily, as has been discussed, I
think we just need to rework the few docs on the top level.  I can work on
this if you like.  I'd like to PODify it all.

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