X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/a83b6f466440987720492416f8091f2530a9ab41..de25ec475131e36403f73934903aa34a8d4dc2e4:/README.macos diff --git a/README.macos b/README.macos index a15cb61..ab01d90 100644 --- a/README.macos +++ b/README.macos @@ -10,47 +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 -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 +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/ +=head1 DESCRIPTION -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. +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. -MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It -is based on perl 5.004. +Historical information (and working binaries of the last released version) +are available from L as of October 2009. =head1 AUTHOR perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher -Eneeracher@mac.comE. It is currently maintained by Chris -Nandor Epudge@pobox.comE. - -=head1 DATE - -Last modified 2001.04.05. +Eneeracher@mac.comE. Chris Nandor Epudge@pobox.comE +continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life.