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From:
Chris Nandor
Date:
February 16, 2009 00:59
Subject:
Re: can MACOS_TRADITIONAL go?
Message ID:
95B496F5-97B2-4A21-A3AE-B0E30644ADA7@perl.org
On Feb 15, 2009, at 12:38, Matthias Neeracher wrote:

> On 15 Feb 2009, at 10:44, Chris Nandor wrote:
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
>>> Date: February 15, 2009 10:23:03 PST
>>> To: Chris Nandor <pudge@perl.org>, Joshua Juran  
>>> <jjuran@gmail.com>, perl5-porters@perl.org
>>> Subject: can MACOS_TRADITIONAL go?
>>>
>>> There's a fair amount of conditional compilation in the perl core  
>>> for
>>> MACOS_TRADITIONAL. Does anyone still use that? Does perl even  
>>> still build
>>> on it?
>>>
>>> Can we remove it? It would make things simpler.
>>
>
> I wouldn't know if there is an active scene of MacOS 9 fanatics  
> eagerly compiling each new release, but I rather suspect there isn't.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, this can be removed.

I'd like to see it left in, personally, but if it causes too much  
trouble, since I am not maintaining it, and I can't identify any  
particular users of it, I can't actually make a case for it.  :-)


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