Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / April 2007

Subject says it all. Would dropping Jaguar support bother anyone?

Supporting it is becoming problematic. PAR requires a newer Perl than  
Jaguar shipped with, for one thing, as do an increasing number of  
CPAN modules. So the PAR modules and "kits" included with the latest  
CB don't support Jaguar.

There's also the question of Unicode; Perl 5.6.* doesn't support it  
very well.

Then there's a purely pragmatic reason: Disk space. My "work drive"  
has Tiger on it, of course. My "alt OS" drive is the 25GB that my Mac  
was born with, which has room for two OS partitions. Right now,  
that's Panther and Leopard.

There are solutions, of course - shrinking the "work drive" partition  
to make room for a Jaguar partition there, replacing the "alt OS"  
drive were a second 120GB (the largest my Sawtooth G4 will support),  
etc. But any of those require effort, cost, or both, and I'm doubtful  
at this point that supporting Jaguar is worth it.

Thoughts?

sherm--

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