Re: wxPerl on the Mac; was: [wxperl-users] Re: problems with wxPerl

[Jouke V. <jo...@pv...>]

Hi Christian,

I asked the question who would try to pick this up on the MacPerl
porters list, but no-one replied yet (and I didn't receive any of the
messages on that list, so maybe something went wrong...). I'm glad
you're thinking about this...

> I have written to this (wxperl-users ) list on 14 Sept, and Mattia 
> Barbon replied to me (for some reason he didn't send a copy to the 
> list) that it should not be too hard to port it to MacOSX but that it 
> will take some work, and he hasn't a Mac so only can help with advice 
> (he didn't say something about MacOS8/9, but I think this would be a 
> bit harder because MacPerl is quite different from Unix perl, and the 
> latest stable MacPerl version is also 5.004!, so maybe that could be 
> a problem).
My thoughts are the same. I don't even have a clue how MacPerl would
work in the first place, since it omits a shell (I think...) :)

> We need to write a Gui for the Macs, but haven't decided yet whether 
> to use Perl+wxPerl or Perl+Carbon or C++ (maybe Metrowerks 
> Powerplant). If we decide (within the next week or two) to use 
> wxPerl, we'll be glad to work together in some form. I've already got 
> an offer for some help from someone on the macosx-perl-list.
I think it would be much preferrable to use wxPerl because you then
would have a way to write GUI programs in Perl which are *really*
multiplatform: Win32, Mac *and* Unix. Carbon would not be usable on
other platforms.
 
> I think the following has to be worked out:
> (at least for me, maybe others have more experience i.e. with Perl on MacOSX)
<snip> 
Sounds like a good way of handling it...
 
> Jouke, have you got any reply from the MacPerl guys? Would you be 
> interested in the MacOSX version?
I have had no reply at all. I talked with Pudge about it on IRC and wit
blech too. The latter has already tried to make it work, but it turned
out that wxMac needs CodeWarrior, and he hasn't got a copy of that. So
that's where his attempt ended.
I would *very, very* much like to see this happen. If I can help
anywhere (can't see where, because I don't own a Mac, nor have I
experience in C/C++ programming), please let me know, because I'd be
happy to help where I can!


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