I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite). I didn't upgrade to 10.11 (El Capitan). I'm now looking at upgrading to the latest 10.12.3 (Sierra).

Is anyone running Perl on this version? Is there anything I need to be aware of, look out for, and so on? Any gotchas or horror stories?

I've already done some reseach on this.

I'm aware of SIP (introduced in El Capitan); there's a fairly detailed article about it here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really. I think I can live with this; and, in fact, disable it if I can't.

I searched on PM. Many issues seem to relate to using the system Perl: I use Perlbrew and never touch the system Perl, so I don't think there'll be any problems in that area.

Not exactly Perl-related, but I've also made local copies of all Apache config files; I also have a copy of /etc/hosts (which I've made some changes to at different times).

If anyone has any advice on this, it would be much appreciated.

— Ken

In reply to Perl on Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12.x): any issues? by kcott

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