My Perl journey began 48 hours ago. My Mac now hosts v 5.36.0 in HOME/localperl. I have discovered cpanm and used it to effortlessly install perltidy and perlcritic into HOME/perl5. What I thought was an easy system halted with attempts to install Padre and ptkdb debugger. Both installations appeared to go well with countless OKs on the way…then at the last test fail.

I think I’m right in saying neither will in fact install on 64bit Macs. But - if this is the case - why does the installation begin. Surely cpanm knows what system it is trying to install into and should stop the process immediately with a polite message.

Padre is unlikely to be a loss - I now have vscode set up for perl and it recognises v 5.36.0, perltidy and perlcritic. Red squiggles appear when I forget - so far deliberately - to end a line with a ‘;’. It is likely that my debug tactic will be to print variables at various stages until the problem is found. This is usually easier than a formal debugger anyway.

The next stage of my journey will be working through Beginning Perl and Beginner Perl Maven. So far I’ve only dipped into them. The associated vids on the Perl Maven course are excellent introductions.

I suspect I will soon be seeking advice from Perl Monks - so many thanks in advance.

In reply to My Perl journey begins by oldB51

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