On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Eric J. Roode <wxperl.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Finally, installing the wxPerl package from Ubuntu does not constitute >> "mucking about" with the Perl that came with Ubuntu. That makes no >> sense. > > Oh, definitely, I agree there. Any modules installed or updated by the > package manager ought be trusted (in theory, anyhow) not to break other > system packages.
Ok. So we have some agreement. > But many *other* things that we do to our local perl installations > might *not* play nice with the system perl, which is why we *have* a > local perl. Ok. I certainly wouldn't do anything that I thought could harm my system Perl. If for some reason I *had* to do something like that, I'd consider it reasonable to put a new copy of Perl in /usr/local. That said, I have never had any need for that. I guess it depends on what else you are doing with your Perl that could break it. > So it should be possible to install any CPAN module on any > installed perl on the system. You can't expect people to use the > system perl for their Wx development. Sure. CPAN should work everywhere. I wouldn't suggest otherwise. Not Ubuntu's fault though. :) Daniel. -- Intolerant people should be shot.
