On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:06 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:43:48PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
Parrot is also widely portable, much like perl is. This one's
especially important to me, as I still work with Mac OS 9.
Parrot builds on Mac OS 9? Cool
It's not listed in PLATFORMS, so I wasn't sure.
No -- I haven't even attempted it yet. I'm still developing the Unix
emulation layer, Lamp (Lamp Ain't Mac POSIX) on which it will run,
including the kernel and prerequisite userland utilities -- one of
which is perl.
Just this weekend I ported Lamp to 68K, and after a little assembly
hacking and refactoring yylex() into small enough chunks, perl made
the trip as well.
Once I get perl further along (as right now it's only miniperl -- I
haven't written dlopen() yet) and add some missing features to the
shell, I'll take on building parrot. Chances are, if it works on
CygWin, I can make it run in traditional Mac OS -- on both
architectures.
Josh
