In article <p05200f31ba33ada1a36c@[192.168.254.205]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Morin) wrote:
> At 11:28 AM -0800 12/28/02, David Wheeler wrote: > >Perl 5.8.0 ithreads are very good and quite stable. > > Yes, but 5.8.0 is not the "native perl on OSX". > > >Thread support prior to 5.8.0 is experimental and deprecated > >as of 5.8.0. > > So the native perl _isn't_ all that great. I'd say s/native/default/g. I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that perl 5.8.0 does not work out of the box on Mac OS X. But yeah. :/ I wouldn't blame Apple too much. I can't blame them for not supporting perl 5.6 threads, since they are barely worth supporting; and I can't blame them for not including perl 5.8 yet, since it was released only a few months before Mac OS X 10.2 was, which isn't really enough time for them. If perl 5.8 is not included for the next major OS revision, then I'd certainly see plenty of room for blame. :-) > >iThreads should be fine on OS X. > > but isn't, unless I upgrade (and force my users to do likewise). Depending on how many users you have, this might not be a bad option, though. And even if you have a lot of users, you could build it once, then create a binary tarball they can then unpack under /usr/local/ or somesuch. Either way, perl 5.8 is not a huge pain to build and install under Mac OS X, you just need to plan things out a little ahead of time (decide where you want things installed, etc. ... I just comment out all the path hints in darwin.sh, hardcode the man paths, and then install with the /usr/local prefix as normal). -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
