Re: Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread Brian McNett
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Morbus Iff wrote: > MacPerl is for the Classic / OS 9 and below environment. > MacPerl allows you to reach out into the normal Finder and > create Mac GUIs, or else interact with AppleScript and so on > and so forth. The Perl shipped with OS X is the

Re: Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread Charles Albrecht
> 1) I am wondering whether to use Linux-ppc or >Mac OS X as the OS. > > I am hoping that someone, (or a few of you) with experience on these >platforms, > would let me know what you like or dislike about either. Thomas, The linux-ppc distributions are much closer to other linux distributions,

Re: Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread Craig S. Cottingham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 12:08 , Thomas Whitney wrote: > 2) I have not seen anyting about mod_perl w/Apache on OS X, > but I assume > that since > OS X is Unix based that it would work. Is that correct? Not only does it work, but I believe

Re: Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread Morbus Iff
> 1) I am wondering whether to use Linux-ppc or Mac OS X as the OS. > > I am hoping that someone, (or a few of you) with experience on these > would let me know what you like or dislike about either. I have experience with both Linux and OS X. My Linux boxes sit unused after I've seen the ma

Re: Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread John Gruber
Thomas Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 3/12/02 at 11:08a: > Then on this newsgroup, I was reading about the excitement over the > release of MacPerl 5.6.1. If the linux version of perl runs on OS X > then why the buzz over the current release of MacPerl? Because it brings Perl 5.6.1 to Mac

Apache on a G4

2002-03-12 Thread Thomas Whitney
Hi, I am wanting to set up an Apache Web Server with mod_perl. I have a Mac G4 and a few questions. 1) I am wondering whether to use Linux-ppc or Mac OS X as the OS. I am hoping that someone, (or a few of you) with experience on these platforms, would let me know what you like or dislike a