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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 17, 2009 15:30
Subject:
Re: can MACOS_TRADITIONAL go?
Message ID:
20090217232950.GI81285@plum.flirble.org
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 03:42:33PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Looks like Schwern discontinued support for it in MakeMaker 6.21_03:
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/3r6noikb3ke5wcg4
> 
> which was nearly five years ago.

Does that mean that DynaLoader won't even build any more on it?

Nicholas Clark

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