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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
 
 This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic).
 If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be
-here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X).
+here (unless you are in the Classic environment under early versions of
+Mac OS X).
 
 When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not>
 Mac OS X.
@@ -18,47 +19,16 @@ Mac OS X.
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-The latest perl source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional
-pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl is kept
-in close sync with regular perl releases.
-
-To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition
-of the F<macos> subdirectory, distributed separately.  It includes extra
-source files, config files, and make files.  It also includes extra
-Mac-specific modules.
-
-To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the F<macperl>
-directory, which includes the source files for creating the
-application itself.
-
-All of this is available from the development site, via
-HTTP (in the MacPerl Installer, which includes all the source
-and binaries) and anonymous CVS.
-
-	http://dev.macperl.org/
-
-The source is also in the main perl repository in the macperl
-branch (the 5.6 source is in the maint-5.6/macperl branch).
-
-You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely
-available.  These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site
-for all things having to do with MacPerl development.
-
-MacPerl 5.6.1 and later are supported on Mac OS 8.1 and later, for 68040
-and PowerPC architectures.  The MPW tool may be used on Mac OS 7.5.5
-and 68030 computers.
-
-MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is also available, on the CPAN and on SourceForge.  It
-is based on perl 5.004, and works with Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 computers.
+The port of Perl to to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12,
+though the last offical production release of MacPerl corresponded to 
+Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
+a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004.
 
+Historical information (and working binaries of the last released version)
+are available from L<http://dev.macperl.org> as of October 2009.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher
-E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>.  It is currently maintained by Chris
-Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>.
-
-
-=head1 DATE
-
-Last modified 2002.05.02.
+E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>
+continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life.