Good question for Tim K -- how's Perl on OS X today ? On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Jame Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Uri. That was what I was thinking and hoping too. However the > postings I read from the early days of OS X on doing this ran to many > pages, even aside from GUI issues. Few were dated later than 2014 making > me wonder if either > > i) It's so frustrating that people have given up trying > > or > > ii) It's become so easy lately that it's not even worth talking about. > > I fear the former on the circumstantial evidence. > > > > > On 5/29/2017 5:57 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> On 05/29/2017 05:03 PM, James Eshelman wrote: >> >>> I’m running a perl app with its own lean and mean packaging of perl and >>> libs (to minimize portability issues) on linux and MSWin. I’d like to >>> port this whole package (i.e. the linux version + lean perl) to OS X if >>> it’s reasonable. I took a brief look at what the web has to say on the >>> subject. Overall my take from that reading is that it’s a mess and a >>> non-trivial task given the Darwin/BSD origins of OS X, compiler and ‘make’ >>> compatibility issues, differing compile-time options, etc., etc. Is >>> this a fair assessment or have I missed something? Anyone have experience >>> doing this? >>> >>> I don’t want to get many days down into a rat hole only to find that >>> there are weeks or months left to go. >>> >>> PS: Commandline + browser user interface app only, no GUI, only >>> extremely basic linux and shell features. >>> >>> >>> i haven't done that but darwin and linux are unix like and much much >> closer to each other than windows. most all of cpan and perl itself should >> compile and run on darwin if it runs on linux. there are plenty of p5p >> people who use macs so it should be well supported. just my gut feeling on >> this. >> >> i bet some of the concerns are more to the gui side of things and that >> isn't an issue in your case. >> >> uri >> >> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
