If you're looking for an application that can create droplets very similar to how MacPerl did, look at Dropscript:
http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/software/
Basically, you write your perl script, save it as a text file, and then drop in on Dropscript, and it'll make a droplet for you. One difference from MacPerl is that it won't show you output to STDOUT, as that can only be seen using the Console.app, but if you want to process files, create files, or somehow deal with files in a droplet sort of way, I think Dropscript will do what you need.
(Yes, I'm a MacPerl user from the olden days. ;)
Oh, check the list archives for other discussions on Dropscript.
Pete
What I miss most is the MacPerl droplet, on which you could drop a file, extract the path (into ARGV) and do something with the file. For instance I have a droplet to decode Base64 -- drop and bingo there is the decoded file. And similarly with more complicated issues like translating a 'pod' file to 'pdf'.
Is there anyway one can get back to this functionality in MacOS X? Experiments with AppleScript have not been rewarding. Sure, you can write an applet which will extract the full path name from a file dropped on it. But the path is the old Mac-style colon separated directory path. What can you do with that?
