BeOS status update; all platforms status update.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17027

2 files changed, 101 insertions, 129 deletions

diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos
index d13c68c25d..8d2c10913b 100644
--- a/README.beos
+++ b/README.beos
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
   ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3
   ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
   ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
-  lib/Tie/File/t/16_handle............FAILED test 39
 
 The reasons for the failures are as follows: 
 
@@ -94,10 +93,6 @@ The waitpid failure means that after there are no more child
 processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set
 errno to ECHILD).  In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
 
-=item *
-
-The reason for Tie::File 16_handle #39 is not known.
-
 =back
 
 Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index a90d4cdaba..1981774af6 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -1359,6 +1359,7 @@ in the "OTHER" category include:
     OS            $^O        $Config{'archname'}
     ------------------------------------------
     Amiga DOS     amigaos    m68k-amigos
+    BeOS          beos
     MPE/iX        mpeix      PA-RISC1.1
 
 See also:
@@ -2061,84 +2062,66 @@ First public release with perl5.005.
 
 =head1 Supported Platforms
 
-As of early 2001 (the Perl releases 5.6.1 and 5.7.1), the following
-platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
-distribution available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html
-
-	AIX
-	AmigaOS
-	Darwin		(Mac OS X)
-	DG/UX
-	DOS DJGPP 	1)
-	DYNIX/ptx
-	EPOC R5
-	FreeBSD
-	HP-UX
-	IRIX
-	Linux
-	MachTen
-	MacOS Classic	2)
-	NonStop-UX
-	ReliantUNIX	(SINIX)
-	OpenBSD
-	OpenVMS		(VMS)
-	OS/2
-	OS X
-	QNX
-	Solaris
-	Tru64 UNIX      (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX)
-	UNICOS
-	UNICOS/mk
-	VOS
-	Win32/NT/2K	3)
+As of June 2002 (the Perl release 5.8.0), the following platforms are
+able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution
+available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html
+
+        AIX
+        BeOS
+        Cygwin
+        DG/UX
+        DOS DJGPP       1)
+        DYNIX/ptx
+        EPOC R5
+        FreeBSD
+        HP-UX
+        IRIX
+        Linux
+        MacOS Classic
+        Mac OS X        (Darwin)
+        MPE/iX
+        NetBSD
+        NetWare
+        NonStop-UX
+        ReliantUNIX     (SINIX)
+        OpenBSD
+        OpenVMS         (VMS)
+        OS/2
+        POSIX-BC        (BS2000)
+        QNX
+        Solaris
+        Tru64 UNIX      (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX)
+        UNICOS
+        UNICOS/mk
+        UTS
+        VOS
+        Win32/NT/2K     2)
+        z/OS            (OS/390)
+        VM/ESA
 
         1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
-        2) Mac OS Classic (pre-X) is almost 5.6.1-ready; building from
-	   the source does work with 5.6.1, but additional MacOS specific
-           source code is needed for a complete build.  See the web
-           site http://dev.macperl.org/ for more information.
-        3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-
-The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6.0 and 5.7.0),
-but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.7.1 release.
-There is a very good chance that these will work fine with the 5.7.1.
-
-	DomainOS
-	Hurd
-	LynxOS
-	MinGW
-	MPE/iX
-	NetBSD
-	PowerMAX
-	SCO SV
-	SunOS
-	SVR4
-	Unixware
-	Windows 3.1
-	Windows 95
-	Windows 98
-	Windows Me
-
-The following platform worked for the 5.005_03 major release but not
-for 5.6.0.  Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string
-representation in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 introduced incompatibilities in this
-EBCDIC platform.  While Perl 5.7.1 will build on this platform some
-regression tests may fail and the C<use utf8;> pragma typically
-introduces text handling errors.
-
-	OS/390	1)
-
-	1) previously known as MVS, about to become z/OS.
-
-Strongly related to the OS/390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based
-mainframe platforms are the following platforms:
-
-	POSIX-BC	(BS2000)
-	VM/ESA
-
-These are also expected to work, albeit with no UTF-8 support, under 5.6.1 
-for the same reasons as OS/390.  Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org 
-for more details.
+        2) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 GCC, VC++
+
+The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6 and
+5.7), but we did not manage either to fix or to test these in time
+for the 5.8.0 release.  There is a very good chance that many of these
+will work fine with the 5.8.0.  The only one known for certain to be
+broken for 5.8.0 is the AmigaOS.
+
+        AmigaOS
+        DomainOS
+        Hurd
+        LynxOS
+        MachTen
+        PowerMAX
+        SCO SV
+        SunOS 4
+        SVR4
+        Unixware
+        Windows 3.1
+        Windows 95
+        Windows 98
+        Windows Me
 
 The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in
 the past (5.005_03 and earlier), but we haven't been able to verify
@@ -2148,63 +2131,57 @@ active champion on these platforms--or both.  They used to work,
 though, so go ahead and try compiling them, and let perlbug@perl.org
 of any trouble.
 
-	3b1
-	A/UX
-	BeOS
-	BSD/OS
-	ConvexOS
-	CX/UX
-	DC/OSx
-	DDE SMES
-	DOS EMX
-	Dynix
-	EP/IX
-	ESIX
-	FPS
-	GENIX
-	Greenhills
-	ISC
-	MachTen 68k
-	MiNT
-	MPC
-	NEWS-OS
-	NextSTEP
-	OpenSTEP
-	Opus
-	Plan 9
-	PowerUX
-	RISC/os
-	SCO ODT/OSR	
-	Stellar
-	SVR2
-	TI1500
-	TitanOS
-	Ultrix
-	Unisys Dynix
-	Unixware
-	UTS
-
-Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release:
-
-	Netware
+        3b1
+        A/UX
+        BSD/OS
+        ConvexOS
+        CX/UX
+        DC/OSx
+        DDE SMES
+        DOS EMX
+        Dynix
+        EP/IX
+        ESIX
+        FPS
+        GENIX
+        Greenhills
+        ISC
+        MachTen 68k
+        MiNT
+        MPC
+        NEWS-OS
+        NextSTEP
+        OpenSTEP
+        Opus
+        Plan 9
+        PowerUX
+        RISC/os
+        SCO ODT/OSR     
+        Stellar
+        SVR2
+        TI1500
+        TitanOS
+        Ultrix
+        Unisys Dynix
+        Unixware
+        UTS
 
 The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
 binaries available via http://www.cpan.org/ports/
 
-				Perl release
+                                Perl release
 
-	Netware			5.003_07
-	OS/400			5.005_02
-	Tandem Guardian		5.004
+        OS/400                  5.005_02
+        Tandem Guardian         5.004
 
 The following platforms have only binaries available via
 http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html :
 
-				Perl release
+                                Perl release
 
-	Acorn RISCOS		5.005_02
-	AOS			5.002
-	LynxOS			5.004_02
+        Acorn RISCOS            5.005_02
+        AOS                     5.002
+        LynxOS                  5.004_02
 
 Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from
 the source code, both for maximal configurability and for security,
@@ -2213,7 +2190,7 @@ http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html for binary distributions.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<perlaix>, L<perlapollo>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlbeos>, L<perlbs200>,
+L<perlaix>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlapollo>, L<perlbeos>, L<perlbs2000>,
 L<perlce>, L<perlcygwin>, L<perldgux>, L<perldos>, L<perlepoc>, L<perlebcdic>,
 L<perlhurd>, L<perlhpux>, L<perlmachten>, L<perlmacos>, L<perlmint>,
 L<perlmpeix>, L<perlnetware>, L<perlos2>, L<perlos390>, L<perlplan9>,