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On Feb 15, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: > 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. I believe I'm the only one actively maintaining anything resembling a perl build for classic Mac OS. I do intend to advance from 5.6.1 to 5.8.9 Real Soon Now. >> 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. :-) I don't use it. Lamp (Lamp ain't Mac POSIX) is essentially a unix platform. For example, dynamic loading would be implemented via dlopen(). JoshThread Previous | Thread Next