At 02:51 PM 10/23/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur 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.
I'd be happy if Perl 6 ran on MacOS 9.
>But I am not happy of having to use a proprietary mechanism for building
>things.
You might need some AppleScript to get bootstrapped, but that ought to be
about it.
Dan
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