On 24 Dec 2008, at 18:27, Ashley wrote:
On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Tomas Doran wrote:
On 24 Dec 2008, at 00:25, Ashley wrote:
I love OS X but the Perl it has historically shipped with is
historically no so hot. I would strongly recommend you install
the latest 5.8 (NOT over your system perl but beside it) or 5.10.
I don't consider this good advice, especially for a beginner.
He didn't say he was a Perl beginner. :)
Yeah, sorry - total misreading on my part there..
He said he was new to Catalyst. The perl + libs OS X ships with
have caused me many problems (nothing with Cat springs to mind,
more C-based things like Storable) in the past from the public beta
to 10.4.
I've never had an issue with Apple's perl myself. I wouldn't use it
for production (where I build my own from source), but I've always
found it fine for development..
It's not bad advice, generally - but readers could have got the
impression that Catalyst itself is unlikely to work on the perl which
Apple ship, which isn't true..
This might be the problems with the temporarily out of sync content
decoding layers in LWP v Mech. Which are all fixed in the newest
versions. So installing LWP and WWW::Mechanize before Catalyst
might be all that's needed.
I think that is just idle speculation...
I can confirm that right now for me, a freshly installed 5.8.8,
pulling everything (including latest WWW::Mech, and latest LWP) from
CPAN, WWW::Mech fails tests for me, as per:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/12/msg2920088.html
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41834
Cheers
t0m
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