At 15:27 -0700 2001.04.23, John W Baxter wrote:
>When a rational person can make that recommendation, then one is "just"
>accommodating people who elect not to move up or can't afford to by
>continuing MacPerl. That's a decision for later this year, I think...post
>5.6.1-based MacPerl (if Chris and the gang want to keep going that long).
At the VERY least, I want to get out a modern MacPerl and set it up so that
someone else can more easily carry the mantle, if I do decide to move on.
I anticipate a MacPerl 5.6.1, and a MacPerl 5.8.0. I've already built
MacPerl for 5.7.1 several times. For the most part, it is just drop in the
perl source, be it 5.6.1, or 5.7.1, and compile. So in the future, anyone
can build MacPerl for themselves, with whatever version is current.
The big work right now is porting to GUSI 2 and working out a lot of kinks
in the system. But the core of perl 5.6 and 5.7/8 are so close, it is
going to be mostly quite easy to move forward. The big questions would be
additional features, like a better built-in editor, or threading/forking,
etc.
So to sum up: I am going to stay with Mac OS for the forseeable future. I
will do my darndest to release MacPerl 5.6.x and MacPerl 5.8.x, as
applicable. After that, we are past the forseeable future, but
nevertheless, if I am not still working on it, it should be relatively
simple for someone else to build new versions.
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