Re: [MacPerl] GUSI 2 and MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

(Note: this may be a more appropriate post for the macperl-porters list.)

At 12.11 -0600 1999.12.08, Matthew Langford wrote:
>Me again, causing trouble.  I notice that Matthias has released GUSI v2.
>Will there be a new MacPerl compiled to take advantage of it, or will that

Matthias is working on a MacPerl based on the 5.6 sources (still in
development).  I don't think he is going to spend time on upgrading the
build that uses the current MacPerl sources to use GUSI 2, though someone
else is welcome to.  :)

>wait until a more recent distribution of Perl is incorporated into the
>source, as well?  Would such a version eliminate the necessity for an old
>CW lib to compile MacPerl from scratch?

I believe the plan was to make it so you could build the next release of
MacPerl using freely available compilers (Apple's MrC and MPW), along with
making it buildable using CW.  I don't know if anyone is sure what will
happen in the end.


>On the same theme, how deep is the interaction between the various pieces
>in the MacPerl src folder.  From previous discussions on the list, I got
>the idea that the perl folder had some pretty serious changes from the
>dist, and can't just be replaced with a new dist.  Is this also true of

That has already mostly changed.  Matthias is working on the build process
now, and has it working now so that you _do_ just drop in the perl
distribution.


>each of the others (eg, sfio, GUSI, db)?

Well, that is just a matter of the Makefile knowing where those things are
so they can be linked in (once they are built, if they are not built
already).  So I believe it is just a matter of getting the Makefile right.

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