Just a note about Perl on Mac OS X.

Apple does not update the Perl distribution during the lifecycle of a given major version of the system. For example, under Jaguar 10.2.6 it was the same Perl 5.6.0 that it was under 10.2.0 (which was used since 10.0). Similarly, under Panther (10.3.x) it's Perl 5.8.1 RC3.

The source of the Perl Apple include in Mac OS X can be found on their opensource site.

In reply to Perl under Mac OS X (Re^2: How does your distro handle Perl module installation ?) by Maddingue
in thread How does your distro handle Perl module installation ? by szabgab

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