Sandra Silcot publishes a MacPerl primer at http://www.unimelb.edu.au/~ssilcot/macperl-primer/home.html, and also by ftp at ftp://www.unimelb.edu.au/pub/cwis/tools/macintosh/MacPerl-PRIMER-1.1.sea.hqx
Bob Dalgleish and Bob Wilkinson have taken over the MacPerl FAQ from Hal Wine. It can be retrieved at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/mac/MacPerlFAQ.html.
The most recent versions of MacPerl are always available in
sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch software/platform/macos/perlThis site is mirrored on a huge number of mirror sites connected in CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. To get MacPerl from your closest CPAN mirror, point your web browser to http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/mac/.
Mac_Perl_519r4_appl.bin
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
MacPerl | | | MacBinary Suffix
| | Distribution Component
| Perl Patchlevel
MacPerl Release
Currently the following components are available:
appl The MacPerl application (Dynamic PowerPC/Small 68K), all
libraries and documentation.
tool The Perl MPW Tool (Dynamic PowerPC/Small 68K) and scripts.
bigappl The MacPerl application (Dynamic PowerPC/Big 68K).
bigtool The Perl MPW Tool (Dynamic PowerPC/Big 68K).
appl_cfm68K The MacPerl application (Dynamic PowerPC/Dynamic 68K).
src The MacPerl source code.
appl_only Only the MacPerl application (Dynamic PowerPC/Small 68K)
without libraries and documentation.
"Small" means that the application doesn't have the Mac Toolbox modules or
the GD module compiled in (but it still will be a fully functional Perl
otherwise)."Big" means that the application has those modules compiled in.
"Dynamic" means that the application doesn't have those modules compiled in, but is able to load them (and arbitrary other modules) as dynamic libraries and thus behaves as if they were compiled in.
You should install distributions as suggested in the figure below, from bottom to top (i.e., to get the big MPW tool, install appl, then tool, then bigtool).
+---------+-----+
| bigtool | src |
+---------+-------------+---------+-----+
| bigappl | appl_cfm68K | tool |
+---------+-------------+---------------+
| appl |
+---------------------------------------+
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