At 14:55 -0800 2002.03.11, macnerd wrote:
> WEB ACCESS
> - is there any way to have a script in any form from HTML call
>AppleScript??
I am not quite sure what you mean from this. You can use MacPerl scripts
as CGI scripts.
> XML Libraries
> - what libraries are working on the Macintosh OS Classic??
Any pure perl XML library, plus XML::Parser, as Keary noted.
> - is there an XSLT engine on the Mac in Perl?
XML::XSLT should work, though I've never used it.
> DBI
> - is this even feasible on the Mac OS Classic??
As Keary noted, most DBDs won't work on Mac OS, but you can use DBD::Proxy.
http://pudge.net/macperl/dbi-dbd-proxy.html
> Perl/Tk
> - Does this work on the Macintosh?
> - Is there support for some sort of Aqua/Tk?
Perl/Tk does not work on Mac OS.
> Other Modules
> - Do NET::SMTP, Mail::Internet, LDAP, IMAP::Admin, Mail::IMAPClient,
>Net::LDAP, Net::LDAP::LDIF
Net::SMTP and Mail::Internet come with MacPerl. The others should all work
just fine.
You must read perlmodinstall before installing modules. I just noticed it
is slightly behind the times; ignore the part about installing "cpan-mac",
as those components are already installed.
> Misc...
> - Is there a way to create some sort of Perlets, i.e. executable compiled
>programs on the Mac?
Yes, as Bart noted, you can save a MacPerl script as a Droplet or a
Runtime. The biggest drawback, though, is that a Runtime will not include
accompanying modules with it, so a script that requires modules is not
easily transferred between computers that don't have MacPerl (or the
requisite modules) installed. There has been some work to deal with this,
with some success, including with RuntimeBuilder, but no complete solution
has been completed at this time.
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