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@@ -10,49 +10,25 @@ README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
 
 This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic).
 If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be
 
 This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic).
 If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be

-here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X).
+here (unless you are in the Classic environment under early versions of
+Mac OS X).

 
 

-When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean pre-Mac OS X, which includes
-Mac OS 7, 8, and 9.
+When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not>
+Mac OS X.

 
 

-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-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.
+=head1 DESCRIPTION

 
 

-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.

 
 

+Historical information (and working binaries of the last released version)
+are available from L<http://dev.macperl.org> as of October 2009.

 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher

-E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>.  It is currently maintained by Chris
-Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>.
-
-
-=head1 DATE
-
-Last modified 2001.04.05.
+E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>
+continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life.