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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
| 2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is |
| 3 | specially designed to be readable as is. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | =head1 NAME |
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| 7 | README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems |
| 8 | |
| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| 12 | B<Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than |
| 13 | 5.6.x.> |
| 14 | If you wish to build a version from the 5.6 track, please |
| 15 | obtain a source distribution from the archive at |
| 16 | L<http://cpan.org/src/5.0/> and follow the instructions in its |
| 17 | README.machten file. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | MachTen is no longer supported by its developers, Tenon Intersystems. |
| 20 | A UNIX environment hosted on Mac OS Classic, MachTen has been |
| 21 | superseded by Mac OS X and by BSD and Linux implementations for Macintosh |
| 22 | hardware. |
| 23 | The final version of Power MachTen, 4.1.4, lacks many features found in |
| 24 | modern implementations of UNIX, and has a number of bugs. |
| 25 | These shortcomings prevent recent versions of Perl from being able to use |
| 26 | extensions on MachTen, and cause numerous test suite failures in the |
| 27 | perl core. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | In September 2003, a discussion on the MachTen mailing list determined |
| 30 | that there was no interest in making a later version of Perl build |
| 31 | successfully on MachTen. |
| 32 | Consequently, support for building Perl under MachTen has been suppressed |
| 33 | in Perl distributions published after February 2004. |
| 34 | The hints file, F<hints/machten.sh>, remains a part of the |
| 35 | distributions for reference purposes. |
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37 | =head1 AUTHOR |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> |
| 40 | |
| 41 | =head1 DATE |
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43 | Version 1.1.0 2004-02-13 |
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