At 17:22 Uhr -0500 30.07.2001, Darryl Holder wrote:
> >From the perspective of a "user-to-get-a-nonprogramming-job-done",
>I would vote
>to drop support of the 68k Macs and the earlier MacOS versions.
>
>Due to great work of you and all the others, the present version is extremely
>powerful and, as long as it is available in the archives, it will do
>a fine job
>on a modest platform.
Yes, I guess this is what most of us would agree (especially given
the fact that 5.6.x will be even more memory hungry then the present
version).
I'd like to make one suggestion though: There are lot of modules out
there for the present version of MacPerl (including binaries) that
will no longer work with 5.6.x and vice versa. I don't know if there
is a consensus yet about a version numbering scheme for modules, but
I'd be very grateful if the porters of MacPerl could provide some
kind of centralized access (a web page, an ftp directory or the like)
for the most recent modules that work/are specially compiled for
MacPerl 520r4-68k, as it is foreseeable that the development threads
for modules in the future will go into the direction of the most
recent version of MacPerl.
In other words, it would be nice to be able to get an easy overview
of what was state of the art for 68k so that 68k-Perl continues to be
a valid option in the future, even if development is frozen. And I
think it might be wise to repackage the 68k-distribution so that it
contains the state-of-the-art versions of the standard modules (and
probably others, like CPAN-Mac).
Anyway, to take a bit of time to provide a final MacPerl 68k access
page in my opinion is much better than to make Chris e. al. go thru
all the hassle of providing support for all kinds of antique systems
and hardware.
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