At 16:08 +0100 2001.06.08, Hylton Boothroyd wrote:
>Now I'm retired and trying to master the previously unknown world of Mac OS
>in general, and version 9.0.4 in particular, and coming to the view that I
Did you know Mac OS 9.1 is out? It is IMO better than Mac OS 9.0.4. More
stable, more complete.
>One remark leapt off the page. After reporting the wide range of platforms a
>Perl script will run on, provided you don't use anything that is special to
>a particular operating system, he wrote
> Initially, the UNIX version was ported to each of the other platforms
> but as from Perl 5.005 all implementations are derived from a common
> source file
>
>It made me wonder whether the current MacPerl implementation of 5.006 is
>being helped by that, or whether the benefit will mostly be limited to perl
>with OS10.
Yes, it is. MacPerl 5.6.1 is in alpha, and compiles using the exact same
source as distributed with the Unix version of perl 5.6.1. There are some
additional patches (which are being fed into the main source, for inclusion
in 5.6.2 and 5.8.0), and there is a separate macos/ subdirectory with
additional files that is not included in the main distribution.
See http://macperl.sourceforge.net/ for more information on 5.6.1 development.
(FYI, 5.006 == 5.6.0, and 5.006001 == 5.6.1.)
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