Mac-Carbon-0.50 Released

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Mac-Carbon-0.50 has been released. Download it from the CPAN or SF.net.

(Note: it may take time for the release to propagate to the various download mirrors.)

Changes:

* v0.50, 6 April 2003
 
   Mac::InternetConfig added
 
   GUSI fixes
     - Fix bug with GUSIFSp* routines not accepting paths where files
       do not exist
     - Make GUSIFSpDown work
     - Add new "GUSIFS2FullPath" and "GUSIPath2FS" (for lack of better
       names) for dealing with FSRefs
     - Add FSRef to typemap
 
   Launching apps
     - Add LSFindApplicationForInfo to Mac::Processes for finding
       applications on Mac OS X (by creator, bundle ID, or name)
     - Make %Mac::MoreFiles::Application find paths to apps using
       LSFindApplicationForInfo for Mac OS X
 
   Open resource files from data forks
     - Add FSCreateResourceFile and FSOpenResourceFile to
       Mac::Resources for creating/opening resource files from data
       fork instead of resource fork
     - Remove resource/data fork workaround from Sound.t
 
   More constants
     - Add AERegistry.h type* constants to Mac::AppleEvents
     - Add file access permissions constants to Mac::Files
     - Add Finder flag constants to Mac::Files
 
   Add -fpascal-strings to ccflags, for compatibility with some of the
   GUSI API (tested with gcc2 and gcc3 under Mac OS X 10.2).
 
   Fix segfault for NULL descriptor in new AEDesc
 
   Add lots of tests for Mac::Files
 
   Fix the two-arg form of FSpGetCatInfo(FILE, INDEX)
 
   Add option for MacPerl::{Ask,Answer,Pick} to be text-based on Mac OS X

Posted using release by brian d foy. use.perl.org

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