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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 23.47 -0400 1998.07.18, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>Has anyone tried building Perl under Rhapsody/DR2? I heard from one person
>that the standard Perl distribution doesn't work, but I don't know how
>hard he tried.

I did not build it, but I ran it.  perl5.004_04, IIRC.  Maybe _02, but I
think it was _04.

>Also, from what I gathered at Macworld the plan is that in
>the consumer release of OS X the command-line won't be accessible (but
>will be using the dev tools). If this is so, then we'll still need
>MacPerl, or something like it, under OS X (althought the porting may be
>much easier).

I imagine a terminal app thing will be freely available to all who want it.


>Question: Does the standard Perl dist. build under MkLinux, or only under
>LinuxPPC? (Just curious.)

I built perl5.004_04 in MkLinux DR2.1 Update6 with gcc, but needed to
change some flags to enable dynamic loading.  I submitted a patch for
perl5.004_05 to hints/linux.sh, but it is missing in perl5.004_75; since I
do not currently have MkLinux installed, and have not tried the new perl
betas or the prerelease MkLinux DR3s, I don't know what the status of any
of it currently is.


>Also, since Vicki brought it up, Be is definitely built on top of a Unix,
>although I don't remember if it is BSD, so that's probably why it is
>mentiond in the Perl 5.005 beta announcement (altough it still would have
>been appropriate to mention the Mac, since they say, "If you find that
>your platform is unsupported, do let us know.").

Last I checked, perl for BeOS did not support sockets fully, so I kinda
think that BeOS is not really that close to being Unix; either that, or it
was something broken in BeOS (BeOS was in preview release at the time).

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