[MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl Module Porters

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

I've been getting more and more requests to get up-to-date modules on the
MMP page (http://pudge.net/mmp/), and I just don't have the time to work on
it, for a couple of reasons:

1.  I have many things to do these days
2.  That work cannot be leveraged directly into the MacPerl development
work, since those shared libaries will not be compatible with MacPerl based
on 5.6.0

So I write this note for two reasons.

First, to note that anyone who wants to contribute to the MMP site is more
than welcome.  Just email me off-list and we can take care of it.

Second, to note to those that don't know that any extra shared libraries
you have now will not work with the next major release of MacPerl.  They
will need to be rebuilt.  The initial focus of development will be on the
core extensions, so for the first phases of testing, unless someone
provides them, we will not have access to DBI, Storable, etc.  Hopefully,
we will have all or most of the currently ported libraries on MMP available
for the next release by release time.  But be aware that some might not be
ported, and any that you or someone else has ported apart from what is on
MMP might not be ported.

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Chris Nandor                      pudge@pobox.com    http://pudge.net/
Open Source Development Network    pudge@osdn.com     http://osdn.com/

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