Re: [MacPerl] I'm back! :-)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16.52 1998.02.24, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>Another means for doing client side execution of perl is via the
>Penguin module - which in turn requires that you have Safe.pm, and PGP.pm
>modules.  Penguin relies on PGP for implementation of its security
>hence requires the full public key trust setup that that entails.  I
>understand there are a number of ports of PGP to the Mac.  I also
>recall Felix Gallo's (author of Penguin.pm) frustration with the
>Mac end of line issue when it came to socket communications - hence it
>was made to work there at one time.  I think Bill Middleton had Mac
>Penguin clients working against a Penguin daemon running on Solaris.
>That was more than a year ago though.

Really, getting Penguin to work in MacPerl is not tough.  I rewrote the PGP
parts to use Apple Events with MacPGP 2.6.3, and hacked up the newline
stuff.  But it really needs to be rewritten so it does not have a
dependency on local newlines at all.

I was thinking of submitting patches, but a new version of Penguin has not
been uploaded to CPAN since last May, and I don't know if it is still being
developed, and what to make patches against, etc.

Bottom line: if Netscape 5.0 is to use Penguin or something like it for its
security, we'll have to rewrite it to be portable, which shouldn't take too
long.  I had it working inside of a couple days last fall, but the fixes
were somewhat incomplete and very ugly.

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