Re: [MacPerl] libwww-perl-5.41 now available

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 10:34 PM -0800 12/21/98, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
>...
>I get this feeling that the Mac is lumped in with the other "hobbyist"
>stuff along with ZX Spectrum emulators - but forget it if you need to do a
>_real_ script, the same way steam train enthusiasts use a car when the
>_really_ have to be somewhere.

IMHO, there are three problems here:

  *  It isn't as easy as it should be for Mac users to access the CPAN,
     unpack tar.gz archives, etc.  This needs some technology and/or dox.

  *  MacPerl wizards aren't pushing their ports back into the faces of
     the mainstream (read, Unix) Perl developers.

  *  There isn't an easy way for someone to know if a script has been
     "ported" to MacPerl.  Some sort of flag fields in the indexes?

All of these are under our control, where "our" includes MacPerl wizards
such as Chris and Paul.  We just need to work on it a bit.  Vicki and I
can help, along the way, by putting up information on the MacPerl Pages.

-r
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