Re: Re: perl development OS of choice

With apologies to my MacOS X brethren, I would not recommend it as my first choice. Don't get me wrong, I love my i-Book running OS X, but the case insensitive filesystem has caused me some grief, I can't get 5.6.1 to build (stock version is 5.6.0) which makes using CPAN a pain (always wants to start off by installing 5.6.1 and fails). Also, as has always been the case with MacOS, the tiny installed base means you are always a bit behind the rest of the world.

At work I use Linux for stuff I will deploy on HP-UX or AIX and have had few problems, but Linux is not UNIX. BSD is, and since you target host is BSD I will side with the other BSD voices on this one.You can run FreeBSD or NetBSD on even older hardware. To run MacOS X you'll need relatively new/fast stuff.

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Re: Re: Re: perl development OS of choice by Elian (Parson) on Jun 01, 2002 at 16:03 UTC
The CPAN issue's a generic problem with the old CPAN module--the first thing you should do is install the latest CPAN, and it takes care of that. It's an old CPAN.pm issue long since fixed. (Just fixed after 5.6.0 was released) The installed base is far less tiny than you might think, too. OS X does have some issues with some of the ancillary libraries (like Curses) but I've not had problems with anything that I've not had problems elsewhere with. (Linux, though, is unix, as much as any other unix out there)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: perl development OS of choice by rah (Monk) on Jun 04, 2002 at 04:09 UTC
I could continue to argue the Linux is not UNIX point, but since the OP asked that the thread not become a holy war I will refrain. Appreciate the tip on the CPAN.pm. Bit of a chicken/egg dilemma, but I think I can get around it. Now if you could just tell me how to get 5.6.1 to build (or when 5.8.0 will be released), I'd be all set :) Although only a minor version difference (5.6.0 vs 5.6.1) I would really like to get my development boxes in sync with my production environment. Thanks again.	[reply]