Re: [MacPerl] OSAPerl Beta

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

Yanni <jon@aggroup.com>
In message <9602141345.AA23424@jon> you write:
>> I'm trying to test the OSAPerl Beta with Hypercard 2.3.  I'm 
>> having difficulty figuring out how to do basic things like: 
>
>Wait a second, was it me or did I miss something? How can I get my hands 
>on this beta?

Sigh. I guess it's my fault for letting that file lie around in my ftp
directory; now there seems to be no way to re-bag that cat except to let
everyone who's interested get his fair share of crashes.

The file is 

ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/Beta/MacPerl_OSA_12Feb96.sit.bin

It contains a PowerPC only OSA component which runs on my machine but apparently
not necessarily elsewhere. The component can't do scripting contexts, it can't
handle AppleEvents, it doesn't respect the active procedure, it is not
recordable and there is no documentation, so I doubt that it's going to be 
much use to any of you.

> Does this mean that since Frontier is OSA compatible I 
>can write Perl in the Frontier App and it will compile it?

I haven't tried yet. It is unlikely that this is going to do anything useful.
Oh yeah, regarding the "compiling" thing: The OSA component does not compile
stuff any more than the application does; the compiled representation is 
identical to the source.

Me, I'm now working on AppleEvent support, because that's what's holding up
most of the progress in both the application and the OSA.

Matthias

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