Re: Perl for RISC OS 4?

On Wed 11 Oct, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:06:19AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > Its probably not worth rebuilding for perl5.6 as perl5.6.1 should be out
> > soon - that might be the time to have the next build - Nick?
> 
> I really don't know how much work 5.6.* would be.
> I got stalled trying to get sfio98's test suite working on RISC OS.
> I'm now 3 "permanent" jobs later, sfio's moved on 2 revisions and I've
> played with linux a lot.
> 
> perl5.6.anything is going to be a biggie download because it has all
> the unicode data in the lib directory.
> 
> Nicholas Clark
> 

Are you saying you want to hand the RiscOs perl pumpkin on to some other
poor volunteer?

If so talk me through building/maintaining it -

I have:

Lots of machines including 2 x RPC, one of which has:
Risc OS 4
Kinetic SA
20G Hard disc
Lots of memory

I also have 

Lots of web space (I maintain about 8 Web sites in my spare time)
ISDN for fastish up/downloads

I have Acorn C/C++ - I have written and maintained largish programs in the
past in particular !Arctic and still use C for some activities that dont work
well for perl.  I have put a C front end for wimp easy use of perl backend
programs that do the real work.

Richard

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