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diff --git a/README.machten b/README.machten deleted file mode 100644 index 2f6d1391b0..0000000000 --- a/README.machten +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you -see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is -specially designed to be readable as is. - -=head1 NAME - -README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - - -B<Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than -5.6.x.> -If you wish to build a version from the 5.6 track, please -obtain a source distribution from the archive at -L<http://cpan.org/src/5.0/> and follow the instructions in its -README.machten file. - -MachTen is no longer supported by its developers, Tenon Intersystems. -A UNIX environment hosted on Mac OS Classic, MachTen has been -superseded by Mac OS X and by BSD and Linux implementations for Macintosh -hardware. -The final version of Power MachTen, 4.1.4, lacks many features found in -modern implementations of UNIX, and has a number of bugs. -These shortcomings prevent recent versions of Perl from being able to use -extensions on MachTen, and cause numerous test suite failures in the -perl core. - -In September 2003, a discussion on the MachTen mailing list determined -that there was no interest in making a later version of Perl build -successfully on MachTen. -Consequently, support for building Perl under MachTen has been suppressed -in Perl distributions published after February 2004. -The hints file, F<hints/machten.sh>, remains a part of the -distributions for reference purposes. - -=head1 AUTHOR - -Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> - -=head1 DATE - -Version 1.1.0 2004-02-13 |