On Tue 23 Oct 2001 14:51, Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:39:29 -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
>
> >As one of the few rabid Mac users on this list, let me just say that I
> >personally have no problem with classic Mac OS support being totally dropped
> >from Parrot if it'll get stuff out the door sooner :) Classic Mac OS is
> >(somewhat sadly) a dead OS at this point. By the time Parrot is "done",
> >Apple will probably be shipping hardware that won't even *boot* classic Mac
> >OS outside of a virtual machine in OS X.
>
> I disagree. OS X is but slowly catching on. You may drop 68k support if
> you want, but please don't drop MacOS 8.x/9.x for PPC. Those Macs aren't
> dead yet, and most of them will never be "upgraded" to OS X.
FWIW we've got a fully functional fully productional Mac OS7 running here. Not
that I have any plans of running parrot and or perl on that machine, nor
do I have any plans in upgrading *any* software on that box.
All upgrades for any Mac software we'd /like/ to upgrade are minimal
requirements Mac OS 8, so we're out of luck there.
> But I am not happy of having to use a proprietary mechanism for building
> things.
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