Re: [MacPerl] Executing MacPerl script on a PeeCee

[Eric Dobbs <dobbs@epost.com>]

At 9:43 AM -0300 4/13/99, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>I guess it's a subject for some discussion as to how useful a Mac linefeed
>patch would be. The AS-oriented patches are designed to ease the task of
>building Perl out of the box, so also having built-in support for \015\012
>is a good thing. But Matthias already has to hack enough stuff that we
>don't have an "out-of-box' solution to start with.
>
>I guess what I'm saying is that the patch could be provided, but in the
>context of the standard distribution it's irrelevant.

True that a patch for the line endings would not eliminate
the need for MacPerl users to download a non-standard
distribution.

Not true that the line endings are therefore irrelevant.

One of the critical values of perl is that it mostly works
across many platforms.  The different line endings for
different platforms trip up a lot of smart people.
Wouldn't it be nice to not have to translate line endings
when downloading from CPAN?  Or if you work in a cross
platform environment, to be able to maintain single copies
of your perl scripts that run without modification on all
of those platforms?

-Eric



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