Re: [MacPerl] Re: MacPerl Help menu script (was README)

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

Axel Rose, <rose@sj.com> wrote:

> cpan-mac's Install.plx installs 209 files. This is pretty impressive.
> Who made all those changes, ports, testing, etc. (I was off the list for
> nearly 2 years)? Still impressed! Quite a lot of work in order to get
> "Mac::AppleEvents:Simple" going. Thank you Chris!
 
Well, cpan-mac involves quite alot more than that, but Chris *has* been 
busy.  Cpan-mac was supposed to bring MacPerl users all the convenience 
of the CPAN shell that Unix folks have had for a while. Does it succeed 
at that? Having only lived without it for a very few months, it's hard 
for me to say (I scarcely recall life without it!) As Chris pointed out, 
it was a bad move to make Mac::AppleEvents::Simple dependant on cpan-mac, 
and he'll probably undo that.

Even better is Mac::Glue (Hokay, I'm on a glue binge! ;-) --  call it 
"Mac::AppleEvents::EvenMoreSimple".  Why bother to construct even the 
most simplified AppleEvents when you can drag&drop your apps onto 
"gluemac" and just start scripting?  Chris really *has* been busy.

--B

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