[MacPerl] MacPerl Evangelism, Building, Etc.

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

After this topic started I did some research. I started where a lot of 
folks would - at the O'Reilly site. No shortage of mentions for the Mac 
here: first page (fairly prominently), where it's been for quite a while, 
on the "latest versions" page, where Mac is only one of three OS's to be 
mentioned by name etc.

At CPAN, the Mac neither receives better or worse treatment than any 
other OS, in terms of publicity. It's _there_, in the /ports directory, 
and what more can you ask for?

The page describing the perl5-porters mailing list also mentions the Mac 
port, and describes its status accurately. So maybe I'm missing something 
here?

As far as "building out of the box", I agree with many, but I 
particularly agree with what Jeff Clites had to say. Just because the 
people using UNIX have to thrash around with Makes, Configures and 
Installs doesn't mean that people using MacOS or Windows, or really, 
practically any of the other OS's, should have to.

Seriously, I looked at the README's for some of these other ports - VMS 
at 14 pages, OS/2 like systems at 27 pages, Win32 with Win C++ compilers 
like Borland's, 11 pages. Caveats and Notes galore. I mean, why not just 
provide the finished product for the poor stiff out there who just wants 
to play with examples in LEARNING PERL?

On a final note, as soon as I saw the prerequisite for Amiga (supposedly 
"built out of the box"), namely that you must have the UNIX emulator, my 
first reaction was "Is that right, now?" :-)


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