Re: Cocoa and PERL

• Subject: Re: Cocoa and PERL
• From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:09:06 -0700

On Friday, July 20, 2001, at 04:52 , David P. Henderson wrote:

On Thursday, July 19, 2001, at 10:25 , Kevin Ford wrote:

First off, just to make it clear, you're dealing with a total newbie
here; however, I was wondering A) is possible to wrap a PERL
script(MisterHouse) and create an interface for it in Cocoa, and B)
where I might find info on such a combination of PERL and Cocoa?

Yes, you want to use Foundation NSTask which allows you to run another
program as a subprocess of your application. Check out
<http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/> for an example of using NSTask

It's possible to embed perl into a C-app. It allows you to easily exchange data and call perl-functions. And it's faster at runtime (since the perl interpreter is linked with the app).
You should use NSTask only when it's really necessary (like for calling GPL-apps from non-GPL code).

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