My personal experience has been fine - though of course fink installs it's perl in /sw rather than replacing the Apple installed version.Can someone point me at a brief synopsis of the pitfalls of installing the Fink perl 5.8.4 on Panther?
My experience in the past has been that perl is so married to the OS it was never worth the headache of upgrading.
You wouldn't really be upgrading, just installing a second version...
Are most things going to keep right on using the old perl
Yes.
and if so is it even worth it?
Is there something you want to install that needs a more recent version?
Is CPAN a better way to accomplish the upgrade?No, i think you're right, it's best not to meddle with the Apple installed perl, because it is tied into the OS.
I've used CPAN from within Fink's perl 5.8.4 distribution, and had a few problems actually installing modules (some files being installed in the wrong place), but nothing that wasn't surmountable. In particular I currently run Spamassassin installed in this way.
I'm no perl expert, YMMV.
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