On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:13 pm, Michael Maibaum wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:24:23PM +0900, Robin wrote:
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:24 pm, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
What is the best, simplest, and easiest approach to having a rock solid, reasonably "standard" perl setup?If you really and truly need 5.8.0 - and there are some good reasons you might, such as improved Unicode support - your best bet would be to get it from darwinports.
Dunno I used CPAN.pm and provided you follow the instructons at
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html
which with the exception of setting the LC_ALL environment variable, is
pretty concise, it went pretty smoothly.
I would strongly recommend against this approach, or if you use it, expect problems if/when you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3.
Are you objecting to CPAN or darwinports?
If its the CPAN method, you are being a tad dramatic. Provided you have installed the dev tools of course (no compiler otherwise), if you follow the instructions at appledev perl5.8 the distro will be installed by CPAN in/Users/YOU/usr/local/ and like anyother app you have installed in your user file, it won't be touched by system upgrades, it belongs to you. Install perl via CPAN as shown also won't overwrite the perl used by the OSX system itself (perl5.6, kept in /Sysytem/LIbrary/Perl). Overwriting this would cause problems for the parts of the system even before a system upgrade.
The effect of darwinports I don't know.
Robin
