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• Strongly, strongly disagree (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  You're way off base on this one.

  I've been using Mac for Perl dev for about 6-7 years (whenever OS X 10.1 came out) and consider it first class. The Mac:: packages are largely irrelevant -- Carbon is a legacy API from the 90s, about as relevant today as a Win95-specific API would be I suppose. If you used a Win95:: library, you'd get similar complaints from users of a modern Windows OS.

  The "flood" of Win32:: packages is because you need those platform-specific hacks to get anything done on Windows Perl. N
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    File::HomeDir, for the Mac, requires Mac::Files which is unfortunately bundled with Mac::Carbon. The latter does not and will never run on a 64-bit Perl, but that's the direction we're going. Because Bundle::CPAN requires File::HomeDir, a fresh Perl installation on a Mac is very painful if you have a 64-bit Perl. I had to manually install File::HomeDir after locally patching it to work around the Mac::Files pain.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      Ovid, no, you're significantly wrong.

      First, let me correct what Alias said: Mac::Carbon has always worked reliably. It has not always INSTALLED reliably, due to changes that break both compiling and testing.

      Second, as to Mac::Files specifically, you cannot separate it from Mac-Carbon. There is no reason to do that: the same reasons why much of Mac-Carbon as a whole won't run on 64-bit perl, is the same reason why Mac::Files also won't. In fact, Mac::Files probably has more incompatibilies with 64-bit tha
      • Re:Strongly, strongly disagree (Score:2)

        by pudge (1) on 2009.09.30 13:06 (#70717) Homepage Journal

        Hi Adam!

        http://pudge.net/tmp/Darwin.tar.gz [pudge.net]

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        • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

          by Hansen (4428)

          and a simple Cocoa implementation. Only tested on 10.5.

          http://idisk.mac.com/christian.hansen/Public/perl/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.01.tar.g z [mac.com]

          perl -MMac::SystemDirectory=:all -wle 'print FindDirectory(NSDocumentDirectory);'
/Users/chansen/Documents

          --
          chansen
          • Re: (Score:1)

            by tonyc (123)

            Tests fine and your sample works on 10.6 in both the 32 and 64-bit modes of the system perl.
          • Re: (Score:2)

            by miyagawa (1653)

            chansen, this looks awesome: works fine on 10.5 and 10.6.

            Updated my patch to use Mac::SystemDirectoty on 64bit perl, Carbon in 32bit and then fallback to pure perl: http://gist.github.com/198615 [github.com]
            • Re: (Score:2)

              by miyagawa (1653)

              Now committed to http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/File-HomeDir [svn.ali.as] as r9436 and r9437.
              • Re: (Score:1)

                by Hansen (4428)

                I have pushed Mac::SystemDirectory 0.02_01 to cpan. I have added support for DomainMask and returning multiple directories in list context.

                http://idisk.mac.com/christian.hansen/Public/perl/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.02_01.ta r.gz [mac.com]

                Example http://idisk.mac.com/christian.hansen/Public/perl/macdirs.pl [mac.com] (I was not allowed to post it here: Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter.)

                I'll add you and Alias as co-maint, feel free to hack on it as you see fit.

                --
                chansen