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- It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
- designed to be readable as is.
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
-
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- 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).
-
- When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean pre-Mac OS X, which includes
- Mac OS 7, 8, and 9.
-
-
- =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.
-
- MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It
- is based on perl 5.004.
-
-
- =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.
-