perlmacos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
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 early versions of Mac OS X). When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS X.
Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLMACOS(1)
NAME
README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
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 early versions of Mac OS X).
When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS
X.
DESCRIPTION
The port of Perl to to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12,
though the last offical production release of MacPerl corresponded to
Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS,
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, a core part of Perl's module installation
infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004.
Historical information (and working binaries of the last released
version) are available from <http://dev.macperl.org> as of October
2009.
AUTHOR
perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher <neeracher@mac.com>.
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> continued development and maintenance
for the duration of the port's life.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.perl.org/.
perl v5.12.5 2012-11-03 PERLMACOS(1)