On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote:
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> On Monday, September 17, 2001, at 05:25 AM, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
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> > That sounds insanely cool. How come they won't release it?
>
> There is a reasonable apprehension to adding to the list of supported
> API in Mac OS. It's yet another thing that might break and hold up a
> release, costing oodles of dollars.
That was what I expected (and it's a better reason than most).
Have you (or anyone else) tried to get them to just donate the code
with a liberal license and then make the community support it?
> Mostly, I don't think they appreciate how useful it would be
> to us perl hackers, and what all coolness we could bring to Mac
> OS if only we had it.
yeah; in MacOS X we could (finally) have applications written in
Perl that for the user would look just like any other.
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