Re: can MACOS_TRADITIONAL go?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:29:50PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 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?

Given
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/baf7177e9c0fbdad246294d1c5ccab2ffb2ea28e..5dca256ec738057dc331fb644a93eca44ad5fa14:/lib/ExtUtils/MM_MacOS.pm 

+sub new {
+    die <<'UNSUPPORTED';
+MacOS Classic (MacPerl) is no longer supported by MakeMaker.
+Please use Module::Build instead.
+UNSUPPORTED
+}

I think that that will be a "yes". "yes, it won't". Since December 2004.

Chainsaws at dawn.

Nicholas Clark

• can MACOS_TRADITIONAL go? by Nicholas Clark
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