On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 12:24 AM, Brian McNett wrote: > On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 09:08 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > > could do both, as I have fink installed, but I find CPAN to be more > familiar. Oddly, this WASN'T working for me, but I see the only > difference is that you're issuing a sudo before launching CPAN...
Since Storable has an XS component, one very significant difference is that using CPAN will compile Storable from source against whatever Perl version you're using, whereas the Fink version is pre-compiled against the stock 5.6.0 supplied by Apple. sherm--