Re: [MacPerl] appl_cfm68K release

[Alan Fry <ajf@afco.demon.co.uk>]

Vicki Brown writes on Sun, 30 Nov 1997:

>I understand that to make use of the appl_cfm68K release of MacPerl, a user
>must have the CFM68K extension (library?) installed, as well as several
>other MacOS libraries.

AFAIK you need:

        AppleScripLib            1.2.2  Tue 12 Sep 1995
        ObjectSupportLib         1.2    Wed 29 Jan 1997
        CFM-68K Runtime Enabler  4.0    Wed 26 Feb 1997
        MacCFM68k                       Tue 11 Nov 1997

>Is anyone out there using the appl_cfm68K version of MacPerl 5.1.5r4?

I am not absolutely sure where the AppleScriptLib and ObjectSupportLib are
supposed to go, but I have them in the MacPerl folder and MacPerl seems to
be able to find them. The Runtime Enabler goes in the Extensions folder of
course, and the MacCFM68k folder (which comes with MacPerl515r4CFM68k) goes
in the MacPerl Ä:lib folder.

>Can you tell me which version of AppleScriptLib is required, and what other
>libraries are required to make this work?

There was some discussion on this, in the summer I think, and I will try to
dig this out. From memory, version 1.2 of the ObjectSupportLib and version
4.0 of the Runtime Enabler are the very earliest which work.

>Can you point me to any documentation (preferably on line) that tells
>people about this stuff?

Amongst the contributions to the list in the summer was a reference from
Matthias to an Apple document on the chequered history of the Runtime
Enabler which is interesting, but only tells us that everything before
version 4.0 was unstable. I will do my  best to fish this out too.

>I'd like to discuss this version of MacPerl in the Installation chapter of
>the upcoming MacPerl book and I'm not sure what to say. Assistance from
>someone who is using this version would be vastly appreciated (and
>acknowledged in the book :-).

All the Toolbax calls I have tried so far have worked perfectly. There were
problems in 5.1.3 (?) in the summer with AppleEvents and some other
modules, but Matthias has resolved these in version 5.1.5.

I will come back to you later with anything I can find in the archives.

Alan Fry



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