Re: [MacPerl] "PerlSlinger"??

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>I yanked the product because I felt it needed some tweaks. Well, I 
>tweaked it alright. Now it's worse than before  :( 

If it ain't fixed, don't break it?  Also explains why the 404, instead of 
a Q&D explaination of where it went.  How humiliating, eh?

>I'll probably get around to fixing the stupid thing tonight. So if you 
>want a copy, email me. Among other things, the portions that *don't* 
>work, and which I'll probably cut for the first beta are the RegExp 
>builder, imbedded web browser and the server simulator. There are just 
>too many problems with them right now. But the Form Builder, Net search, 
>and a few other cool beans will remain. I use it *extensively* and on a 
>regular basis wonder how I'd get anything done without it. It's not 
>really condusive to Mac development, as I'm just not that familiar with 
>integrating the MacOS and MacPerl (I should crack that Power & Ease book 
>one of these days). It's designed to help build sites and cgis that run 
>on servers, esp Unix.

Although it seems that a lot of people using MacPerl deploy on Unix, 
there are those of us who run 100% Mac operations.  If you're not using 
explicit Unixisms (calling "date()" rather than "localtime()" for 
example), and there aren't any path dependencies, AND you know about 
line-endings Unix v. Mac, you've pretty much got it.  The sorts of things 
one uses CGIs for should not have to rely in MacOS Toolbox calls, 
AppleEvents, or such-like.  A pure Perl solution should also be a pure 
MacPerl solution (with minimal modifications).

Of course, the Toolbox, AppleEvents, etc is where most of *my* interest 
lies at the moment, but I don't currently use Perl for CGIs (no 
particular reason, if you ask).

Just my $.02 worth.

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