At 12:44 -0500 4/23/01, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>Please don't, Chris. I'd really like to hear more. Why continue to develop
>perl on OS 9? Are there any real advantages? It always seemed to me that
>creating apps with perl on OS 9 was too platform dependant. MacPerl is a
>great piece of software but it lacks the necessary componants to really make
>it work for me. I never had much luck getting modules updated and there just
>isn't a good web server that's inexpensive for OS 9 to run my cgi's.
It's too early, IMHO, to put MacPerl to bed. Mac OS X isn't here yet (that
is, I can't recommend it for anyone with one machine which is mission
critical). (Unless the particular mission works under Mac OS X.)
When a rational person can make that recommendation, then one is "just"
accommodating people who elect not to move up or can't afford to by
continuing MacPerl. That's a decision for later this year, I think...post
5.6.1-based MacPerl (if Chris and the gang want to keep going that long).
In particular, a Mac OS X machine does not do dialup Internet access
reliably yet (10.0.1 didn't help much if at all, although it did cause the
most recent of my kernel panics related to the serial driver to be delayed
about a half hour after I shut down the connection. [I mostly connect via
frame relay...that connection was a test of 10.0.1 vs dialup.]
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John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA
