Since this is somewhat a new list, I am very curious of hearing what people
are using Perl on MacOSX for. It seems that people who are serious about
coding would opt for a linux or FreeBsd alternative, since this is most
likely what these program will be run under when they're released. I could
be wrong here, and be substaintualy undermining the number of developers for
MacOSX and OSX Server, but right now, the client version of the OS isn't a
hot rod for Webserver and much of the polish really just gets in the way of
someone who knows what they're doing.
I myself use OSX as another test bed for an Open Source Project of mine.
Since my cable modem wigs out every few days, I can still develop without
having to connect to a server to upload my goodies. The default apache
config for OSX is somewhat weird. I bought a mac in the first place because
I am also a graphic designer and go to school for a fine arts degree. It's
quite a frightening thing to see a terminal up right besides photoshop, and
now with the help of Xtools, see the Gimp try to jockey for position with
PS. Its funny, I still use MacPerl within BBEdit, to do a quick syntac
check, in the future I hope to be using the Perl that comes with OSX, since
macperl is based on like 5.002, and certain regexs don't quite, well, work.
I'm hoping some of the ideas used with Macperl don't die off, things like
Droplets and Filters (for BBEdit at least) I'm still primarilly using the
GUI for everything and these were some great tools to use.
Justin Simoni
http://skazat.com
