Change 11263 by pudge@pudge-mobile on 2001/07/10 21:06:10
Integrate changes from mainline perl, add notes about
Mac OS X and Mac OS.
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Index: perl/pod/perlport.pod
--- perl/pod/perlport.pod.~1~ Tue Jul 10 15:15:05 2001
+++ perl/pod/perlport.pod Tue Jul 10 15:15:05 2001
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@
One can circumnavigate both these problems in two ways. Either
transfer and store numbers always in text format, instead of raw
binary, or else consider using modules like Data::Dumper (included in
-the standard distribution as of Perl 5.005) and Storable. Keeping
-all data as text significantly simplifies matters.
+the standard distribution as of Perl 5.005) and Storable (included as
+of perl 5.8). Keeping all data as text significantly simplifies matters.
=head2 Files and Filesystems
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
Linux linux ppc-linux
HP-UX hpux PA-RISC1.1
IRIX irix irix
- Mac OS X rhapsody rhapsody
+ Mac OS X darwin darwin
MachTen PPC machten powerpc-machten
NeXT 3 next next-fat
NeXT 4 next OPENSTEP-Mach
@@ -784,14 +784,10 @@
$is_ppc = $MacPerl::Architecture eq 'MacPPC';
$is_68k = $MacPerl::Architecture eq 'Mac68K';
-S<Mac OS X> and S<Mac OS X Server>, based on NeXT's OpenStep OS, will
-(in theory) be able to run MacPerl natively, under the "Classic"
-environment. The new "Cocoa" environment (formerly called the "Yellow Box")
-may run a slightly modified version of MacPerl, using the Carbon interfaces.
-
-S<Mac OS X Server> and its Open Source version, Darwin, both run Unix
-perl natively (with a few patches). Full support for these
-is slated for perl 5.6.
+S<Mac OS X>, based on NeXT's OpenStep OS, runs MacPerl natively, under the
+"Classic" environment. There is no "Carbon" version of MacPerl to run
+under the primary Mac OS X environment. S<Mac OS X> and its Open Source
+version, Darwin, both run Unix perl natively.
Also see:
@@ -874,10 +870,11 @@
non-VMS platforms and can be helpful for conversions to and from RMS
native formats.
-What C<\n> represents depends on the type of file opened. It could
-be C<\015>, C<\012>, C<\015\012>, or nothing. The VMS::Stdio module
-provides access to the special fopen() requirements of files with unusual
-attributes on VMS.
+What C<\n> represents depends on the type of file opened. It usually
+represents C<\012> but it could also be C<\015>, C<\012>, C<\015\012>,
+C<\000>, C<\040>, or nothing depending on the file organiztion and
+record format. The VMS::Stdio module provides access to the
+special fopen() requirements of files with unusual attributes on VMS.
TCP/IP stacks are optional on VMS, so socket routines might not be
implemented. UDP sockets may not be supported.
@@ -1885,13 +1882,13 @@
=head1 Supported Platforms
-As of early 2001 (the Perl release 5.6.1), the following platforms are
-able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution
-available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
+As of early 2001 (the Perl releases 5.6.1 and 5.7.1), the following
+platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
+distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
AIX
AmigaOS
- Darwin (Rhapsody)
+ Darwin (Mac OS X)
DG/UX
DOS DJGPP 1)
DYNIX/ptx
@@ -1923,9 +1920,9 @@
list [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.
3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-The following platforms worked for the previous release (5.6.0),
-but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.1 release.
-There is a very good chance that these will work fine with 5.6.1.
+The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6.0 and 5.7.0),
+but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.7.1 release.
+There is a very good chance that these will work fine with the 5.7.1.
DomainOS
Hurd
@@ -1944,12 +1941,11 @@
Windows Me
The following platform worked for the 5.005_03 major release but not
-5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
-in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC
-platform. While Perl 5.6.1 will build on this platform some
+for 5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string
+representation in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 introduced incompatibilities in this
+EBCDIC platform. While Perl 5.7.1 will build on this platform some
regression tests may fail and the C<use utf8;> pragma typically
-introduces text handling errors. UTF-8 support for this platform may
-be enabled in a future release:
+introduces text handling errors.
OS/390 1)
@@ -2038,28 +2034,31 @@
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<perlaix>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlcygwin>, L<perldos>, L<perlepoc>,
-L<perlebcdic>, L<perlhpux>, L<perlos2>, L<perlos390>, L<perlbs2000>,
-L<perlwin32>, L<perlvms>, L<perlvos>, and L<Win32>.
+L<perlaix>, L<perlapollo>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlbeos>, L<perlbs200>,
+L<perlcygwin>, L<perldgux>, L<perldos>, L<perlepoc>, L<perlebcdic>,
+L<perlhurd>, L<perlhpux>, L<perlmachten>, L<perlmacos>, L<perlmint>,
+L<perlmpeix>, L<perlnetware>, L<perlos2>, L<perlos390>, L<perlplan9>,
+L<perlqnx>, L<perlsolaris>, L<perltru64>, L<perlunicode>,
+L<perlvmesa>, L<perlvms>, L<perlvos>, L<perlwin32>, and L<Win32>.
=head1 AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
-Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charles Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas Dorner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Dominic Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Neale Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Dominic Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Neale Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David J. Fiander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-M.J.T. Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+M.J.T. Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Luther Huffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Andreas J. KE<ouml>nig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Andreas J. KE<ouml>nig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Markus Laker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew M. Langmead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
@@ -2074,12 +2073,9 @@
Gurusamy Sarathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul J. Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
-This document is maintained by Chris Nandor
-<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
-
=head1 VERSION
-Version 1.47, last modified 22 March 2000
+Version 1.50, last modified 10 Jul 2001
End of Patch.
