[MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

Without actually waiting for anyone to step in and repsond to my previous 
post, I've gone and downloaded Majordomo and taken a look at it.  Several 
things leap out at me from the outset.  First, loads of depricated Perl4 
syntax.  This may not be such a bad thing, as using Perl4 would allow me 
to run the mailing list off some of my legacy hardware, and not tie up 
the production machine.

The installer is a shell script.  This function will need to be done 
differently.

There is a tiny bit of C involved (I examined the file "wrapper.c", which 
includes a few explicit unixisms of its own (hard-coded paths), and 
may/will require porting).

Majordomo uses pipes. Majordomo uses sendmail. (both are reasonable 
assumptions on a Unix machine, but less so on the Mac)

There's more, but my sense is that if anyone wants to take this up, we 
can continue the discussion off-list (and return when the discussion 
merits it).

--Brian

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