Re: strange "Perl on Leopard" install behavior

Is there a particular reason you rolled your own perl on you laptop?

I have a macbook pro with Leopard installed. It has :

Macintosh: kurt$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl
Macintosh: kurt$ perl --version

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
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And I can cpan anything I want. I can understand if you wanted to run 5.10 or something, but if you are also running 5.8.8, why not use the one that comes with Leopard? Maybe I missed it in your post.

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Re^2: strange "Perl on Leopard" install behavior by punkish (Priest) on Jan 13, 2008 at 00:13 UTC
why do I want to install my own Perl 5.8.8 when Leopard comes with Perl 5.8.8? because I don't trust my competence with installing Perl and its various moving parts, and I do experiment quite a bit. As such, I don't want to do anything to the factory Perl. By rolling my own, I also get to learn, and that way, when I install my programs on other machines (mainly web programs that I develop on my laptop, and then install for production on other servers on which also I install my Perl) I am hopefully that much savvier. Since my laptop is really my lifeline and sole device for earning bread, I just don't want to muck with any of the factory stuff. I was going to install 5.10 but then I read the caveat on perl.com and just didn't have the heart to get into testing my programs, etc. 5.8.8 works for me, and very well, and I will happily stay with it for a few months if not a year or so. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply]

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Re^2: strange "Perl on Leopard" install behavior
by punkish (Priest) on Jan 13, 2008 at 00:13 UTC

because I don't trust my competence with installing Perl and its various moving parts, and I do experiment quite a bit. As such, I don't want to do *anything* to the factory Perl. By rolling my own, I also get to learn, and that way, when I install my programs on other machines (mainly web programs that I develop on my laptop, and then install for production on other servers on which also I install my Perl) I am hopefully that much savvier. Since my laptop is really my lifeline and sole device for earning bread, I just don't want to muck with any of the factory stuff.

I was going to install 5.10 but then I read the caveat on perl.com and just didn't have the heart to get into testing my programs, etc. 5.8.8 works for me, and very well, and I will happily stay with it for a few months if not a year or so.

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