Re: [MacPerl] Herculean feat

[Juergen Christoffel <Mac.Christoffel@gmd.de>]

At 02:32 -0500 10.02.98, kaiser wrote:
>Has anyone tried to adapt majordomo to MacPerl?  I read it was written in
>Perl and thought I might download it (only 200K or so) to take a peek.
>
>It seems as though there is a good bit of C actually.  Especially since
>it says you need a C compiler to useit.  =^D

The C code is mostly a wrapper which handles the setuid part under Unix.
You wouldn't need that under MacOs.

>I don't even know if this is possible, but I thought it might be worth a
>shot since it is such a nice, fast list server.

I'm not sure how you expect to run majordomo on a Mac (under MacOs at least
;-) It heavily depends on sendmail (or some other MTA) for handling aliases
and various other stuff and unless you'd port sendmail too (which would
seem more like a job for sysiphus than hercules ;-)...?

	--jc

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