Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Identifying Ported Modules

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 00.54 -0600 2000.01.13, Matthew Langford wrote:
>> >Also, IMNSHO, 68K is very close to
>> >obsolete, but perhaps CFM68K has a year or two of life left.
>>
>> I disagree.  There are lots of 040s out there with a lot of life left.
>
>Maybe.  What's the last MacOS they can run?  8.x?

I think 7.6 or 7.5.5 is the last OS any Mac can run.  I do not recall.


>Will they have Carbon
>support?

Probably not, but I do not know.


>If you and/or others stop providing binaries because MacOS X
>makes compilation easy, will they be able to run anything other than core
>Perl?

I did not say I would stop providing binaries for Mac OS, but that I likely
would not provide general CPAN binaries for Mac OS X.  At least I think I
said that.  :)  Two completely different perls.


>If MacOS X takes off, Carbonization and the "normal" perl will
>further marginalize 68K users to a tiny, tiny minority.

That is, for better or worse, up to the users.  If enough users want 68K
support, then it likely will be provided in some form.  I don't see MacPerl
as we know it going away any time soon, so I wouldn't worry about it for
now.


>And the way you feel about providing binaries for non-techie users, I feel
>about providing development environment support for ancient history.  The
>irony in this statement comes from the fact that I'm writing this on my
>PowerMac 7100/80, one or one-and-a-half generations removed from the
>'040s.  :)

I use a 7100/66 (even more ancient than yours :) as my router, IRC client,
and testing machine for doing Apple events over the network.  I do not have
an 040, though I have an 030 (without a working monitor, of course).  I
think the 040 and 020 are the only Mac processors I have never owned (but
for the G4).  I have had the 68000, 030, 601, 603, 604, 750.  Heh.

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