Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl shared lib?

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

Stephan Somogyi <somogyi@gross.net> writes:
>At 20:51 -0700 8.5.96, Peter Folk wrote:
>> What does that mean, exactly?  I understand that OSA is a description of
>> scripting languages, but how exatly does that make it address the issue?
>
>The Open Scripting Architecture allows developers to make scripting
>languages available system-wide, not just to apps with explicit support
>for a single language, as you suggested be done with MacPerl via the
>shared library mechanism.

And best of all, you can use it in OpenDoc, too.

>You were looking for a way to use MacPerl in your favorite apps; it's
>much cleaner to get the fave apps' developers to support OSA, so that
>those apps' users can use AppleScript, Frontier, and soon Perl,
>whichever is most appropriate to the task.

Right. the current implementation of OSA Perl does not yet support executing
AppleEvents, which is very important. Over the past months, I have had the
opportunity to tinker with AppleEvent support, though, so as soon as 5.1.0
is on track, I might get back to OSA.

>(Matthias, please correct me if I've overgeneralized to the point of
>inaccuracy.)

No, you were right on the mark.

Matthias

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