At 1:29 PM -0500 2/20/2002, Levan, Jerry wrote: >Greetings, > >I have awakened from a long slumber and have "acquired" a >new shiny G4 running MacOS X. > >Is the new MacPerl 5.6.1 "Carbonized" or is this a pipe >dream...Running in classic mode can be aggravating.
This has been discussed at length both here and on the Mac OS X perl list. MacPerl is not carbonized. Mac OS X includes Perl 5.6.0 by default and can be used from the command line the same as perl on any other unix system (and reports are that 5.7.2 compiles easily with the Developer tools). Integration with tools like BBEdit work essentially the same as they do on the Classic OS. What may prove useful at some point is carbonized versions of the modules in the Mac:: namespace that currently access the Classic toolbox. Here's Chris' blurb on that from http://macperl.sf.net/ Mac OS X MacPerl runs under the Classic environment on Mac OS X. There are currently no plans to port it to Carbon. Unix perl runs just fine under Mac OS X. It would be nice to, at some point, have the Toolbox modules (Mac::Windows, Mac::Events) Carbonized so the same GUI-based MacPerl programs would run on both platforms. This may happen in the future. There is a separate mailing list for perl on Mac OS X. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Charles Albrecht Euonymic Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 300623 C>303.619.7596 F>978.334.3061 Denver, Colorado 80203-0623 http://www.euonymic.net/~charlesa/cv/
