Re: [MacPerl] Re: MacPerl futures (was MacTCP vs OT)

[dtm@waterw.com]

In addition, don't forget that Apple is planning on continuing
MacOS development for several years to come, so that period
of time is likely to be considerable.

Also, there might be a wide-open market for an OpenSTEP-Perl...
to access OpenSTEP libraries from within Perl...

And finally, I recall that Galaganos (the head of Metrowerks -
no matter how badly I botched the spelling of his name) had
mentioned that he planned that the Codewarrior development
tools can be mixed and matched with GNU gcc tools under Rhapsody,
so it seems that he thinks that GNU compiler tools will be
present there...I know that NeXT had been using them under
OpenSTEP for some time in their default compilers...

-David

> >MacPerl maintenance would strictly need to be maintained for MacOS.
> >However, after a period of time, most of your Perl guru's would likely be
> >running Rhapsody.
> 
> They're supposedly leaving AppleScript (and therefore, AppleEvents), or 
> something similar, in Rhapsody.  I'd sure want a Rhapsody-Perl to take 
> advantage of this.  Also, just a hunch, but I don't think Apple's going 
> to include gcc or the like with Rhapsody - they might, given dual 
> hardware support - but if they don't, someone will have to compile it 
> "for the rest of us".
> 
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