README.macosx - cleanup/update copy, remove 'MacPerl'

diff --git a/README.macosx b/README.macosx
index 839bcf4..7adc78d 100644 (file)
--- a/README.macosx
+++ b/README.macosx
@@ -8,14 +8,20 @@ README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS X.
+This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X.
 
+  curl http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.12.3.tar.gz > perl-5.12.3.tar.gz 
+  tar -xzf perl-5.12.3.tar.gz 
+  cd perl-5.12.3
+  ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local/
+  make
+  make test
+  sudo make install
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-The latest Perl release (5.8.8 as of this writing) builds without changes
-under Mac OS X. Under 10.3 "Panther" and newer OS versions, all self-tests
-pass, and all standard features are supported.
+The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes
+under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. 
 
 Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a
 completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also,
@@ -183,23 +189,6 @@ failures in the C<lib/locale> test. These failures have been suppressed
 in the current release of Perl by making the test ignore the broken locale.
 If you need to use the eu_ES locale, you should contact Apple support.
 
-=head2 MacPerl
-
-Quite a bit has been written about MacPerl, the Perl distribution for
-"Classic MacOS" - that is, versions 9 and earlier of MacOS. Because it
-runs in environment that's very different from that of UNIX, many things
-are done differently in MacPerl. Modules are installed using a different
-procedure, Perl itself is built differently, path names are different,
-etc.
-
-From the perspective of a Perl programmer, Mac OS X is more like a
-traditional UNIX than Classic MacOS. If you find documentation that
-refers to a special procedure that's needed for MacOS that's drastically
-different from the instructions provided for UNIX, the MacOS
-instructions are quite often intended for MacPerl on Classic MacOS. In
-that case, the correct procedure on Mac OS X is usually to follow the
-UNIX instructions, rather than the MacPerl instructions.
-
 
 =head2 Carbon