X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.macos;h=d0ac88e4eaa5fcced92b0f0186808c706f87d10c;hb=66cad4abfc5d793c52a82bd17877e19bb8276665;hp=dda602b0a80c2d6c72577200c3bd152b99b5e30b;hpb=0422ea201da91f96a00fb40e77a13244aa0ac1c7;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.macos b/README.macos index dda602b..d0ac88e 100644 --- a/README.macos +++ b/README.macos @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ designed to be readable as is. README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) - =head1 SYNOPSIS This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). @@ -19,9 +18,9 @@ Mac OS X. =head1 DESCRIPTION -The latest perl 5.6 source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional -pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl will be -able to, in the future, keep in closer sync with regular perl releases. +The latest perl source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional +pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl is kept +in close sync with regular perl releases. To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition of the F subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra @@ -38,8 +37,8 @@ and binaries) and anonymous CVS. http://dev.macperl.org/ -The source is also in the main perl repository in the maint-5.6/macperl -branch. +The source is also in the main perl repository in the macperl +branch (the 5.6 source is in the maint-5.6/macperl branch). You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely available. These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site @@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ and PowerPC architectures. The MPW tool may be used on Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 computers. MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is also available, on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It -is based on perl 5.004. +is based on perl 5.004, and works with Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 computers. =head1 AUTHOR @@ -62,4 +61,4 @@ Nandor Epudge@pobox.comE. =head1 DATE -Last modified 2002.02.28. +Last modified 2002.05.02.