Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Friday
On Feb 16, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Noah wrote: > what is the most recommended way to install perl modules on OSX? directly > from CPAN via perl or shall I install them from MACports? Before you install anything you will need to make sure that you have Xcode installed as that includes all the tools

Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:17:40PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote: > As of perl 5.10 it is standard with perl, and the old cpan module/client > has been depreciated. The plan is to remove the old client altogether. The only core modules that are deprecated are: Class::ISA Pod::Plainer Shell

Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Staal
On Tue, February 16, 2010 2:35 pm, Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > It was suggested that cpanplus is useful. What are the pros and cons > of cpanplus? Basically, it's the next generation cpan client. Most of the really big advantages are if you decide to script it: It has a _much_ better, and more

Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Noah wrote: > > what is the most recommended way to install perl modules on OSX? directly > from CPAN via perl or shall I install them from MACports? It depends - how comfortable are you with building *nix software from source? That is, can you understand the outp

Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-16 Thread Noah
Hi there, It was suggested that cpanplus is useful. What are the pros and cons of cpanplus? --- snip --- I rely on cpanplus. I prefer it to cpan. http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS/ snip --- Cheers, Noah Packy Anderson wrote: Oh, decidedly via the CPAN shell. Unless you don't

Re: perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-16 Thread Packy Anderson
Oh, decidedly via the CPAN shell. Unless you don't have a compiler loaded on your system... On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > what is the most recommended way to install perl modules on OSX? directly > from CPAN via perl or shall I install them from MACports? > > > Ch

perl modules installation on OSX

2010-02-16 Thread Noah
Hi there, what is the most recommended way to install perl modules on OSX? directly from CPAN via perl or shall I install them from MACports? Cheers, Noah