-The perl 5.6.1 source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional
-pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl will be
-able to, in the future, keep in closer sync with regular perl releases.
-
-At this time, though, it is very buggy, and is under development. An
-alpha release is coming very soon.
-
-To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition
-of the "macos" subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra
-source files, config files, and make files. It also includes a lot of
-extra Mac-specific modules.
-
-To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the "macperl"
-directory, which includes the source files for creating the
-application itself.
-
-All of this is also available from the SourceForge site, via
-HTTP, FTP, and anonymous CVS.
-
- http://macperl.sourceforge.net/
-
-You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely
-available. These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site
-for all things having to do with MacPerl development.
-
-MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It
-is based on perl 5.004.
-
+The port of Perl to to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12,
+though the last official production release of MacPerl corresponded to
+Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
+a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004.