Re: [MacPerl-Porters] perl shared library request (or job offer)

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

In article <B4D89181.2C56%rob.dye@ni.com>, Robert Dye <rob.dye@ni.com> writes:

> on 2000.02.22 9:54 AM, Chris Nandor at pudge@pobox.com wrote:
>> At 8.43 -0700 2000.02.22, Kevin Walker wrote:
>>> I looked into trying to build such a shared lib myself from the perl
>>> source code, but found the task daunting.

> I'm in complete sympathy here. Both my intern and I were amazed at the
> arcane and complex build process for MacPerl. Is there a chance that the
> build process will be simplified in the next rev?

More than a chance: an absolute certainity. A simpler build process is a top
priority, along with support for the standard MPW compilers.

> If I recall correctly,
> there were also some dependencies upon an obsolete CodeWarrior 11 library,
> and specific versions of other libraries. Will these dependencies go away?

Yes.

>> This beast may exist sometime "soon."  A port of MacPerl to the 5.6 source
>> (which is in beta now for Unix and Windows) is in progress, and may include
>> a shared library.  So my suggestion is to wait.  Matthias Neeracher is the
>> guy doing the work, and he is on this list.

> I'd like to voice my whole-hearted and enthusiastic support for this effort!
> Please make the "may exist" be a "will exist"!

That's subject to the available porting resources (and I hope those will not be
confined to *my* porting resources, once I make the build more accessible).

> BTW, if the shared library effort works out, I'd like to put in a feature
> request:

> Make it possible to trap "exit" and "die" so that a perl plugin does not
> bring down the entire app when a script decides to execute one of these
> commands.

That's the way things are already.

Matthias

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