Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds

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

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:

[ Massive snippage ]

> As for distributions, I have these thoughts:
> 
> All built binaries go in :lib:Mac(PPC|CFM68K):auto:xxx:yyy:.  All other
> ported files would replace the original file, with the original moved to a
> root-level directory called "Mac_changed" or something.  Additional files
> needed for the build, like Makefile.mk, etc., should be added, too.
> 
This (all the snippage) looks good to me.

I did have one thought, and maybe it's worth discussing now before
everything gets locked in. What about support for patches? I'm thinking of
a situation where correction of a single line in a single file of a Module
of Death *is* the port, or something almost as trivial, in a pure Perl
module. I know memory is cheap, but I cringe thinking of putting a whole
Mac port up on a site just because line 212 in file UnixCentric.pm uses /
instead of :.

Maybe a parallel patch page on this hypothetical site? Click on the link
for SlightlyWrong-1.00 and get the patches for it. Or some such...

Assume I know nothing of diff & patch capabilities on MacOS. Which is
pretty close to the truth, I've only ever really used these tools on UNIX.
Is this doable? Practical?


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