Re: [MacPerl] We need more evangelism...

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 5:59 -0800 7/19/98, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>
>The point is, it is no longer a port. Download and unpack the source for
>5.005. You'll find README.amiga right along side README.beos. Sarathy
>meant what he said: "builds on".

I'm sorry.  I am going to continue to have a problem with this.  Perl "just
builds on" VMS, BeOS (I mean, who actually uses BeOS?), Windows, DOS, and
the AMIGA for heaven's sakes but not MacOS. Not to mention OS/2 (a good OS
from all reports but not exactly in wide distribution!) and QNX.  What
exactly _is_ QNX?

Notably absent, yet in more popular use than most of the above, is Mac OS.
This feels wrong.

I hear the reasons.  I don't have to like them.

The _implication_ is that Mac OS is either too weird, or that we're a cult
operating system, or that no one really wants to run Perl on a Mac.  OK, so
those are incorrect implications, but there you are.  They are also valid
implications.

>From the discussion here, things are getting better.  Patches are being
sent back. That I do like.  I want people to be able to download a perl
distribution from one location (I do not care how many archives) and build
it.  Yes, they need the correct build environment.  That goes without
saying.  Sheesh; Solaris doesn't come by default with a compiler either.

Personally (Tom C doesn't want to hear this :-) I do not want to build
perl.  I don't want to _need_ to build perl.  I am decidedly annoyed when I
am required to build perl.  But when everyone else has the option, in the
mainstream release, I think it looks really funny that we don't.  Whether
or not we take advantage of it.

nuff said.  we now return you to your regular list topics.

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