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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-05-21 00:15:27 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-05-21 00:15:27 +0000
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@@ -8,27 +8,23 @@ README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic).
-If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be
-here (unless you are in the Classic environment under early versions of
-Mac OS X).
+For Mac OS X see README.macosx
+
+Perl under Mac OS Classic has not been supported since before Perl 5.10
+(April 2004).
When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not>
Mac OS X.
-
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The port of Perl to to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12,
-though the last offical production release of MacPerl corresponded to
+though the last official production release of MacPerl corresponded to
Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004.
-Historical information (and working binaries of the last released version)
-are available from L<http://dev.macperl.org> as of October 2009.
-
=head1 AUTHOR
-perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher
+Perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher
E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>
continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life.