Re: [MacPerl] BinHex

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 09.53 10/28/97, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>But the more serious reason is that I'm completely unwilling to jump
>through the .tar.gz hoop for a pure MacPerl module.  If the powers that be
>at CPAN will accept a .sit.hqx with a MacPerl droplet (let's call it
>Makefile.PL just for fun) that guesses where to install, asks the user if
>this is right, and then installs, then I'll go ahead and make such a thing.
>I'll have to anyway since shortly LWP will be included in MacPerl, and
>there needs to be some way to handle the frequent LWP updates cleanly.  If
>they insist on .tar.gz, then that's life.  Then not all good things written
>in Perl will be at CPAN.  But that's already the case, anyway.

I have to say I think that is a bit of a shame.  I would like to see CPAN hold all the useful MacPerl modules that aren't part of the distribution.

I do see your point, however.  Oh well.  :/

Maybe at some point we can make a MacCPAN ... ?  But that would duplicate a lot of the effort already existing in CPAN.

As to the powers that be at CPAN: Andreas Koenig was more than happy at one point to accept .sit.hqx files for inclusion on CPAN, but there is no UNIX version of Stuffit.  Blame Aladdin for that.

Anyway, once Compress::Zlib gets ported to MacPerl (and CPAN.pm gets rewritten for Compress::Zlib), then it should all be a much easier process.  We'd still have to do some rewriting, but I can see the process being easier for MacPerl in the not-too-distant future.

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