brian pink wrote:
My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their site,
is why would you use this install?
any takers?
People would use ActivePerl for OS X for the same reason Windows users use
ActivePerl: they need to execute Perl scripts for one reason or another but
On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Janet Goldstein wrote:
People would use ActivePerl for OS X for the same reason Windows
users use ActivePerl
Windows users use ActivePerl because Windows doesn't ship with Perl.
they need to execute Perl scripts for one reason or another but
can't cope with the
IIRC, I think I actually used CPAN on ActiveState's perl on MSWindows
when I was doing perl on MSWindows several years back. I think I dug an
old version of nmake up in Microsoft's support site or something,
didn't have anything that needed to be compiled.
I'm not a big fan of ActiveState
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Janet Goldstein wrote:
People would use ActivePerl for OS X for the same reason Windows
users use ActivePerl
Windows users use ActivePerl because Windows doesn't ship with Perl.
FWIW, ActiveState Perl is also available
On 2005.6.8, at 11:59 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Janet Goldstein wrote:
People would use ActivePerl for OS X for the same reason Windows
users use ActivePerl
Windows users use ActivePerl because Windows doesn't ship with
At 9:41 am -0400 8/6/05, Janet Goldstein wrote:
Even those who have the knowledge to build Perl from source, as I
have many times, welcome the convenience of binaries. Also, ppm is
somewhat easier to use than CPAN.pm.
Amen to both. From Jaguar onwards I have probably done a dozen or so
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:38 AM, John Delacour wrote:
To use the Perl that came with the OS, as Sherm recommends, is
simply not satisfactory when important developments are happening
within Perl.
I recommended no such thing. I simply pointed out that a Windows user
who wants to run a Perl
On 6/8/05 Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:38 AM, John Delacour wrote:
To use the Perl that came with the OS, as Sherm recommends, is
simply not satisfactory when important developments are happening
within Perl.
I recommended no such thing. I simply pointed out that a Windows
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Delacour wrote:
Why does not Apple update Perl through sofware update?
As I understand it, the rationale is that a lot of things depend on the
release of Perl that shipped with the system -- installers, startup
scripts, periodic daemons, etc.
If Perl were to be
David Cantrell wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
Getting CPAN to behave is also a black art.
I wonder what you're doing wrong, then.
I'm not the only one. There's a couple modules that I haven't been able
to get to compile lately, such as WebService::GoogleHack, and I don't
know why it's
Lola Lee wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
Getting CPAN to behave is also a black art.
I wonder what you're doing wrong, then.
I'm not the only one. There's a couple modules that I haven't been able
to get to compile lately, such as WebService::GoogleHack, and I don't
know
erm try Cpanplus maybe?
I understood that Cpan was no longer being actively developed.
Robin
On 9 Jun 2005, at 05:43, David Cantrell wrote:
Lola Lee wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
Getting CPAN to behave is also a black art.
I wonder what you're doing wrong, then.
I'm
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Dubois) wrote:
Today ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X.
ActivePerl 5.8.7 for Mac OS X is now available for free download from:
http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePerl/
And besides, ActiveState will make sure
On 2005.6.8, at 04:24 AM, Lola Lee wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
Very nice and most welcome, though still not as easy as the Windows
installation. May I suggest that you include at least the
configuration notes in the distribution. Once I had returned to the
AS site and found the
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Dubois) wrote:
Today ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X.
ActivePerl 5.8.7 for Mac OS X is now available for free download
from:
http://www.ActiveState.com/Products
My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their site,
is why would you use this install?
any takers?
- brian
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, brian pink wrote:
My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their
site, is why would you use this install?
Some reasons I can come up with:
* You want to use the latest maintenance version of Perl and not wait
until Apple updates OS X. Panther ships
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