On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 02:09  AM, Geoffrey F. Green wrote:

> On 7/3/02 2:44 PM, "_brian_d_foy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Agree with what others have said, and add:
>
>> i want to include the things that are special, rather than the same. i 
>> was
>> thinking:
>>
>>  * Mac OS X's stock Perl layout
>>  * special installation instructions (from stable.tar.gz)
>
> Based on my experience with 580rc1 & 2, there won't be much to say 
> there.

Nope - it works out of the box.
If you ignore the thread-unsafe libc Apple lets us cope with,
and the buggy Berkeley DB.
Ahhh...and don't forget the lost signals issue (POSIX test #9 IIRC)


> BTW, anyone know if the base Perl will be upgraded to 5.6.1 in Jaguar?

The last time I tried to compile 5.6.1 (for perl debugging purposes) I 
ran into many troubles.
AFAIK the perl5.6.0 on Mac OS X is heavily modified version made by 
Apple.
I don't think they will go through all that trouble again - since the 
perl
on the WWDC Builds is still 5.6.0 I think they're waiting for 5.8 or 
5.8.1 or 5.6.2 or so.
After all it's painless to install perl5.8 on your Mac if you really 
need it.

>  - geoff

Regards,

Kay

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