Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Progress Report MacPerl 5.6

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 12:34 PM -0400 10/21/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>Hm, I am not sure given your rationale what makes the XS modules any
>different than pure Perl modules.  They can also be installed with
>cpan-mac.  Well, it is harder to find them, this much is true, but other
>than that I don't see a difference (aside from the fact that these things,
>included with MacPerl, might possibly be statically linked to a Big68K
>binary).


It's basically the harder to find, harder to install problem.  I can

cpan> install Net::Telnet

and MacPerl will do The Right Thing.  I cannot

cpan> install XML::Parser

and have it do The Right Thing.  (That's true even if I have Code 
Warrior, the old libraries, and MPW installed, right?)  I tried once 
installing of of your or Arved's precomiled XS using cpan-mac and 
have never done it again.  It's so much easier simply ftp'ing it from 
CPAN or mmp and dumping it on installme.

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