Re: [MacPerl] MPW - how many use?

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:56:41 -0600, Doug McNutt wrote:

>> I do all of my MacPerl coding from BBEdit (which handles > 32K files, has
>> text coloring, etc., and DOESN'T take up the 25MB of disk space I need for
>> MPW :-)
>
>It's hard to believe that. My MPW folder is 18 MB and it still includes
>toolserver, MrC++, SC, Pascal, Link, Make, whole directories of .h files,
>and a bunch of other things that are hardly necessary for work with the perl
>tool. And you can't compile MacPerl with MPW anyway!

Believe it.

I once tried to install MWP, and the free space before and after the
install differed by around 32Mb. The results depend on the sectore size
of your hard disk, anyway: the larger the sector size, the more waste.

>I suspect that MPW could be peeled down to something like 8 MB including the
>perl tool but not all of CPAN.

That would be nice.

I just can't see why a shell alone would need 8Mb. 200k would be more
like what I'd expect.

And all I'd be interested in, is the shell functionality, and
ToolServer.

	Bart.

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