Re: [MacPerl] installing libraries in mac perl

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

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:54:28 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:

>Again, WHICH docs are you referring to, aside from the README?  I find it
>hard to believe such a fuss is being made over 5000 bytes.

It's not only a question of what *is* in the docs (that needn't be
there), but also of what *isn't*. It's only 5k. 5k of virtually useless
and pretty ungrokable stuff. So where are is the real intro to MacPerl?

I wrote an intro on MacPerl in the alt.comp.lang.applescript newsgroup,
a *practical* intro to MacPerl, many moons ago. Chris, you surely must
have seen it ;-). I posted it to stop an anti-MacPerl war in that
newsgroup, and you were in the middle of it. Well, it looks like it
helped, 'cos the feud stopped. And I think that it contained pretty much
the information that *should* be in an introduction file to MacPerl. At
least, it addressed the stuff I can remember having troubles with
myself, in the beginning. Only newbies really can really judge.

I don't really mind that Unix-only info in the distribution. I do mind
it being so prominent, plus it looks to first time users that that is
all the info there is (before they discover Shuck, that is). It's just
not enough.

-- 
	Bart.

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