Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl installation, folders

[Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Axel Rose wrote:

> I experience the number and names of folders within the "MacPerl Ÿ" folder
> as very confusing.
> 
> Why is there a "MacPerl Scripts" and a "macscripts" folder?
> Why is there an "ext" folder with mostly .t files? Is this for
> testing - then why isn't it named appropriately?
> What module is used when - ":lib:Mac:AppleEvents.pm" or "lib:MacPPC:Mac:
> AppleEvents:AppleEvents"?
> 
> What do others think?
> I consider the pure amount of folders and files in the top level folder
> harder to grasp when the "README.???" problem so thoroughly discussed here.

I think it's a  part of the same problem.  I would like to see simple
one-phrase summaries of each of the folders in the Mac Readme (eg "MacPerl
Scripts" is intended for AppleScripts MacPerl should execute [?]).

Is there a pod devoted to this topic?

One further comment.  In a future download site, can we separate the MPW
and standalone MacPerls into separate directories?  This would eliminate
some confusion.  I suspect there may not be a 68K next version, but maybe
I'm wrong.  If there is, further subdividing the download directories
would help eliminate confusion even further:
 /68k/cfm68k
 /68k/static-linked-lump
 /ppc/mpw
 /ppc/standalone

I suppose both the 68k directories may further be subdivided by /mpw and
/standalone.  Seems like at least one of the 68K versions was going to be
eliminated.  This download arrangement eliminates the necessity of much of
the large discussion in the Mac readme, which gets read often _after_ the
download process has occurred.


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MattLangford 


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