Re: [MacPerl] Compiler

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

pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) writes:
>At 17.21 8/22/97, Paul Giampaolo wrote:
>>Someone told me that a Compiler for MacPerl existed, is there any truth to
>>this story?????
>
>No.

Correct :-)

>But that is not the same as a compiler.  A compiler might be a part of
>perl5.005, but that will be specifically geared to UNIX perl, and might not
>be easily portable to MacPerl, in which case it probably will not happen
>any time soon.

Portability to MacPerl is unlikely to become an unsurmountable difficulty, but
the compiler is a Perl-to-C compiler so to use it, you'd still have to have
MPW and Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I'd estimate that less than half a dozen people
have ever built an extension module for MacPerl, so unless a healthy and active
extension module building community develops (which has happened to some extent
for Perl code modules already), I might not port the compiler or not distribute
it widely.

Matthias

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