At 11:11 AM -0700 4/13/01, John Townsend wrote:
>Please forgive me is this question has been asked a dozen times before.
>
>Soon I will begin testing desktop publishing apps with OS X. Can
>anyone tell to what extent Perl (MacPerl or otherwise) will be
>supported under OS X?
macosx% perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for darwin
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
Mac OS X comes with perl 5.6.0. 5.6.1 came out this week. It can be
a little tricky to build if all you have access to is HFS+ partitions.
>
>If you can point me to any documentation, I'd appreciate it.
"man perl" in a Terminal window will get you started.
But since you mention desktop publishing, I'm not at all sure how
integrated you can make perl with whatever application you have in
mind. There is an 'osascript' application for running AppleScript
from the command line, so you should be able to run it with system()
or backtick from perl scripts. You may or may not be able to drive
your application that way. Getting data back from your application
will be more difficult unless it can create files for perl to work on.
>Thanks
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