On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:54 PM, william ross wrote:
To be more specific: If you're installing 5.8.0 on a "clean" system - i.e. you haven't installed any CPAN modules under 5.6.0 - you're fine.On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:14 AM, Chuck Jacobson wrote:there are debates about the wisdom of those apple-sanctioned instructions,I installed perl 5.8.0 according to Apple's directions
If you've installed any CPAN modules under 5.6.0, however, they're in /Library/Perl - which is where Apple tells you to install both standard and CPAN modules for 5.8.0. The result when that happens is an "interesting" mix of modules that doesn't really work perfectly under either 5.6.0 or 5.8.0.
but the consensus seems to be that having followed them - as i did - you might as well go with it.I'd agree with that. The problem isn't an ongoing issue, it's more of an initial installation hassle. Apple's instructions can cause a bit of a mess that you'll need to clean up, but having cleaned it up and gotten everything working under 5.8.0, there's no harm in continuing to use 5.8.0 from that point forward.
Here's a tip: If you're doing web development, Console.app is insanely great. Start it up, open the "/var/log/httpd/error_log" file, and then hide the app. Whenever an error is logged, Console.app automatically unhides itself to show you the error.If it still doesn't work, it's probably to do with the webserver.
sherm--
If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C?
