perl & Mac G4

[The King of Pots and Pans]

I am thinking about getting a Powerbook G4. Does perl work on it?

 

[Dan Wilga]

I am thinking about getting a Powerbook G4. Does perl work on it?

5.8.1 even comes pre-installed.

 

[Walter Roberson]

:In article <QStjc.4976$Jy3.2087@fed1read03>,

:> I am thinking about getting a Powerbook G4. Does perl work on it?

:5.8.1 even comes pre-installed.

I have, though, found on a (non-powerbook) G4 running Jaguar before
and now Panther, that Apple's supplied perl and fink and CPAN
do not get along very well together. When you use CPAN to
install a module, then CPAN does not inform the debian package
database, and then fink ends up complaining that you do not have
the right prereqs for perl modules you try to install that way.
And if you fink around with other versions of perl (e.g.,
5.8.4 was released last week), then you can really get yourself
into a mess. You have to be very careful about how some of the
perl modules visible through fink are marked as placeholders and
some of them are the actual module...

Of course, if you try to manage everything through Apple's supplied
perl and CPAN, and skip over the perl stuff in fink, then you
run into the problem that fink wants perl as the prereq for some
of the other packages...

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I am thinking about getting a Powerbook G4. Does perl work on it?

It works very well, although the latest OS includes a slightly dated version
- 5.8.1RC3.

For info about writing GUI apps, and a complete hassle-free installation of
5.8.4 with a plethora of database and XML modules included, see my .sig.

sherm--

 

[The King of Pots and Pans]

For info about writing GUI apps, and a complete hassle-free
installation of 5.8.4 with a plethora of database and XML modules
included, see my .sig.

Is this something like Perl/Tk? Is Perl/Tk used for GUI scripting on
Mac? Or is Perl/Cocoa the most common combination?

 

[Sherm Pendley]

Is this something like Perl/Tk?

Well, naturally the details of the particular tool set and API are entirely
different. But it's the same basic idea - an event-driven GUI toolkit.

Is Perl/Tk used for GUI scripting on
Mac? Or is Perl/Cocoa the most common combination?

I'm fairly certain that Perl/Tk can be used, but it produces X11 apps. Apple
includes a built-in X11 server with Panther, so X11 apps are perfectly
functional. But they don't look and feel like native apps, and depending on
who your users are, that could potentially be a cause of complaint.

sherm--