Re: Installing PerlTidy for Mac OS 9 Help please?

Installing modules on MacPerl is somewhat of a mixed-bag experience at times--most things are easy, and some things are just impossible, unless you have a compiler and a certain amount of free time. Fortunately, what you're trying to do is easy--go to MacPerl Module Porters and look down at the bottom of the page for the paragraph on installation. Short answer is that you need the cpan-mac distribution, from Chris Nandor (includes a Mac version of CPAN.pm and the aforementioned installme applet). I'd elaborate, but it seems silly--the docs are all there, and they're an easy read.

While you're there, look at the rest of the page--a fair number of very handy modules requiring compilation are linked from it.

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Re: Re: Installing PerlTidy for Mac OS 9 Help please? by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 03, 2002 at 02:56 UTC
Sorry to leave this thread languishing over the weekend. World Cup Fever is to blame. I've got hashes of arrays of matches and arrays of hashes of results and all kinds of lovely soccer data formats to play with. For the record: No, I didn't drag the files to the installme, because I didn't have the installme. In my defense, when it says "in the distribution-included 'Installme' file", it doesn't say which distribution. I have since downloaded Chris Nandor's cpan stuff which totally kicked ass and solved my problems, (after assigning a lot more memory to MacPerl!). If we can draw any useful lesson from my rather pathetic post and the responses, it's "keep up to date with your version of Perl and the documentation will make more sense..." -- `($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Installing PerlTidy for Mac OS 9 Help please?
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 03, 2002 at 02:56 UTC

For the record:

No, I didn't drag the files to the installme, because I didn't have the installme.

In my defense, when it says "in the distribution-included 'Installme' file", it doesn't say which distribution.

I have since downloaded Chris Nandor's cpan stuff which totally kicked ass and solved my problems, (after assigning a lot more memory to MacPerl!).

If we can draw any useful lesson from my rather pathetic post and the responses, it's "keep up to date with your version of Perl and the documentation will make more sense..."
--

($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
[download]

[reply]
[d/l]