[MacPerl] ongoing support of CFM68K

[Charlie Gray <charlie@snake-oil.demon.co.uk>]

In the mortal words of Dr. Nick Riviera, Hello Everybody!

Me and my faithful IIci installed MacPerl a few days ago and subscribed to
macperl.org yesterday - just as madame philosophe <mp@mkt2spamisbadmkt.com> got her
very warm welcome. Re what Matthias wrote - I don't know what CFM68K is but
this seems a real good time to speak out before it gets unsupported. By the
way, what is it?

Also re (Peta Adams / John Murray <jmnc@lis.net.au>)'s advice to beginners
part 2,

>2. Set yourself a task list of say five simple little programs.

Are any of these simple little programs? I'd like to use perl to:
1) publish a 15 field database and include a page via which people wanting
to register can submit an application,
2) analyse the popularity of songs on a site with 50 RealAudios on it,
currently getting 1100 ram downloads a day,
3) extract multiple search engine responses for offline browsing (there's
no such thing as free local calls in the UK)
If these aren't going to be simple little programs, any suggestions?

I always thought "Read the FAQ" was a pretty reasonable response - any good
FAQs around for someone with my expertise (=0)?

Charlie <charlie@snake-oil.demon.co.uk>



>In article <19990702090734.A3553@pobox.com>, "Paul J. Schinder"
><schinder@pobox.com> writes:
>> Right.  It's been so long since I set up my 68k machine that I forgot
>> about that.  I chose appl_cfm68k myself
>
>That reminds me of an issue I had wanted to bring up: How many people are
>currently using CFM68K? I'm considering to drop CFM68K support for future
>releases, because (as opposed to the other 68K builds) I cannot test it
>on any Mac I have (And I'd rather not borrow Apple's labs for this purpose).
>
>If you see a need for ongoing support of CFM68K (obviously it's not going to
>disappear retroactively, speak out now or forever hold your peace.
>
>Matthias



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