Re: [MacPerl] OSX & MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 7:43 -0700 2000.08.18, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
>>I fear MacOS X might be the end of MacPerl, especially if Perl/Tk turns
>>out to be an easy port...
>
>   I don't think that is at all true.  Granted Perl installs by
>default on OSX, but there is still a lot of other support that will
>need to be rewritten.  I envision that MacPerl in the future will
>pretty much be the libraries needed to interface with OSX, and other
>Mac oddities.

That, and some people will continue to use Mac OS Classic for awhile to
come.  And you might want Perl in your "blue box" under Mac OS X.

Anyway, Mac OS (Classic) support is basically in the 5.6.x core now
(although work still needs to be done), so in the future, hopefully, perl 5
will always be available on Mac OS (Classic).  Perl 6 is another story ...

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