Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Config.pm

At 19:23 -0700 2001.10.10, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>> At 22:52 +0200 2001.10.06, Andreas Marcel Riechert wrote:
>> >Because I did not see Config.pm mentioned in the
>> >bug, feature-request and task list, just a quick
>> >question: Can we expect some change in Config.h
>> >and therefore Config.pm.
>> >
>> >For example at the moment I got:
>> >   osname='MacOS'
>> >   osvers='9.1'
>> >   cc=''
>> >
>> >in Config.pm.
>> >
>> >My built was on 9.0.4 with MrC/SC.
>> >Thinking about cpan-testers, future bug reports,
>> >modules who need some config information etc. pp
>> >it would be nice e.g if "osvers" and "cc" and other
>> >keys would be populated  with the right values.
>>
>> Probably.  Low priority, though, so patches welcome.  :-)  Here's something
>> to get you started:
>>
>>   #!perl
>>   use Mac::Gestalt;
>>   my $version = join '.', split //, sprintf "%x",
>>     $Gestalt{gestaltSystemVersion()};
>
>Yet another need for Configre.MPW eh?  I have BTW moved recently and hope
>to settle down to some "soonish".

Great, we'd love to have your help again.  :-)

In this case, I think actually that Mac::Gestalt won't help, since it is
not available when Config.pm is built.  However, we have MPW!  `gestalt
sysv` gives you the OS version.

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