[MacPerl] Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl 5.6.1 SystemRequirements

[Chad A. Clark]

on 7/29/01 3:37 PM, Chris Nandor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 09:22 -0400 2001.07.29, Chris Nandor wrote:

> Sorry about being wrong; Mac OS 8.1 works with some 68K Macs, Mac OS 8.5
> does not.

No need to apologize, it is hard to remember 68k related stuff myself :).

> 
> I also meant to add that MacPerl 5.6.1 will have greater memory
> requirements (as perl 5.6.1 has greater requirements than perl 5.004), this
> making it less usable on legacy Macs anyway.

Also library support (Static vs. Dynamic) would also be an issue with
development for 68k. If 68k support is continued with perl 5.6.1,
I would like the option of being able to do only a PowerPC build :).

> And of course, MacPerl
> 5.2.0r4 is still usable on the old machines.  :)

Hmmmm........ am I reading to much into this? :)

> No decision is immediately forthcoming; please keep up the feedback and
> thoughts.  Thanks,


Regards,

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