Re: [MacPerl] Distributing reduced MacPerl package with Droplet ?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 2:03 PM -0600 2/3/98, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:

} According to Paul J. Schinder:
} >
} > There's not a great need, since 68k binaries also run on PowerPC.  The only
} > reason a BigPPC would be needed is if you need both the portability and the
} > additional speed.
} >
}
} Hmmmmmmm..... ok.  Let me try it this way:
}
} From what I have heard, one of the releases of the MacOS
} will soon not support 68k programs since the 68k systems
} are now somewhere around five to six years old.  Would it
} not, therefore, make sense to make a BigPPC version of
} MacPerl to not only take advantage of the hardware and
} software improvements since the 68k systems were around but
} to also get ready for such a possibility?  Or is what I
} have heard about simply the switch which Rhapsody is going
} to cause?  Which would then mean everyone switches over to
} Perl from MacPerl?

Well, *if* it ever happens, then maybe it's time for Matthias to create a
BigPPC.  By that time, I'll be using Rhapsody.

Under Rhapsody, of course, the situation will be worse.  Until the Perl
compiler comes along, AFAIK there's no way to give someone who doesn't
already have Perl installed a stand-alone Perl program in a Unix
environment.  (Well, maybe with undump, but undump doesn't work all that
reliably these days, from what I hear.  I haven't used it in ages.)

}
} TIA!  :-)
}


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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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