Re: [MacPerl] Perl Shared Library (was Re: [MacPerl] ports andbuilds)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.28 -0500 1999.01.16, Jeff Clites wrote:
>With the shared-library version, a MacPerl app would behave just like any
>other
>Mac app. That's what user-friendliness is all about.

I agree with much of what you say.  My purposes are twofold:

1.  To play a little devil's advocate
2.  To bring up real problems with the proposed system

So far I haven't done too much of (2).  :)  I am just pointing out how this
system does not solve all the problems.  CGIs are still somewhat
problematic, because most of these will still not have their own creator
ID, if you do a lot of web work, so they are still sharing an interpreter,
or communicating via process ID.  Installation of apps still requires some
extra work to get modules installed.  etc.

I think it is a worthy goal, and I hope that someone attempts it, and that
we can discuss the real nuts and bolts of it on one of the new mailing
lists (coming soon! :).

In a somewhat related story, one man, IIRC, made a Perl plugin for
CodeWarrior under contract using the MacPerl sources, and I wish that
Metrowerks would release that project to us.  :(

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