Hey Chris
Here's one more feedback for you. Used the beta since one month for
developing applications to be running under Linux and am very pleased
with it so far. Also seems more speedy than the last official release.
Memory handling (releasing) is better too. The only "bug", or whatever
one may call this, I discovered is the beta's unforgivingness in the
case where a certain object went out of scope (aka undefined) while the
application still would try to access that object. The beta will then
crash. I witnessed the same behavior with prototype declarations in
subroutines (i.e. 'sub _xx($) {' ) and I think the cause had also to do
with undefined references being passed over.
All in all I think it's an excellent and long awaited milestone in the
history of MacPerl. Congratulations and thanks for your work!
Cheers, Philippe
Philippe Wiede
Megapublic (R), Inc.
Gemsberg 11, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
www.megapublic.com
Andreas Marcel Riechert wrote:
>
> Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've not gotten much feedback about the MacPerl 5.6.1 beta. Does that mean
> > that you're all happy with it, or that you hate it, or that you can't be
> > bothered to test it? :-)
>
> [1]
> At the moment 80% ++ of my work is done on Linux. Ergo,
> unfortunately I don't spend much time with my Macintosh/
> MacPerl. (That will chance soon)
>
> [2]
> I allready erased MacPerl 5.2.0r4 on my machines. While I still
> use MacJPerl (at least untill MacPerl 5.8 will be released) for
> quick and dirty datamunging on-offs, 5.6.1b1 is in production use.
> Because I am quit happy with 5.6.1b1 I don't have anything to complain.
> (The built with MPW/MrC went fine.)
>
> [3]
> If you need some testing in special areas, I could do a few
> hours community work. Let me know.
>
> Andreas Marcel Riechert
