[MacPerl] Re: Press article: Perl for Mac OS X

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.12 +0200 2000.07.14, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
>>Shaw thinks that the plans for MacPerl under Mac OS X are to treat
>>the official Unix port as the Mac OS X port, with the Mac-specific
>>items in MacPerl (access to the Toolbox/etc) available on top in
>>some form.
>
>Are the assertions about Perl largely true?  If not, can A Qualified
>Spokesperson take it on themselves to put things right?  Thanks.

This is true.  Matthias Neeracher has already done some preliminary porting
of the MacPerl Toolbox modules to Mac OS X, IIRC.  MacPerl work being done
now is for Classic Mac OS, running on current Mac OS, and under the "Blue
Box" of Mac OS X.  The Toolbox modules are basically glues to the Mac OS
API, which is available to regular Mac OS X apps as the Carbon libraries.
So the Toolbox modules should work under Mac OS X perl after being ported
to Carbon, which is just a cleaned-up version of the Mac OS API.

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