On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 01:25 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Mike Myers wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of the module Bom.pm which is
>> installed in OS 10.1 by default?
>>
>> /Library/Perl/darwin/Bom.pm
>
> Did you try looking at it?
>
> Bootstrap module providing the perl bridge
> to get to the BOM interface functions.
>
> ....and after that it reduces to, basically:
Most likely this module is related to installer packages in
some way. The only reason I can imagine that it is installed is
that perhaps installers can use perl to do parts of their
install actions. Or maybe it's just a mistake -- I don't know.
If you poke around in your /Library/Receipts directory, you will
find that many packages (maybe all, I didn't look that closely)
contain some sort of *.bom file (which seems to be binary). If
I'm not mistaken, BOM is an acronym for Bill Of Materials. All
of this seems to indicate that it is indeed part of the software
packaging/updating system that Apple uses.
Benjamin Turner
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