I think Fink is... not so hot. I had more problems with it than I ever did learning to compile stuff from source. Fink came about, IIRC, during the Public Beta, when installing stuff yourself was for sysadmins and masochists (I spent two miserable weeks getting modperl/apache running on the PB). OS X is not like that anymore so Fink is just another level of code management to the things you want; you might have to wait a long time for a version bump you want. Even for special stuff like image libs, there are good instructions to be found via Google.

Don't forget you have to install all the dev tools; last I checked they weren't in by default. They are one one of the system disks, probably, and can be downloaded from Apple if not. That gives you gcc and other goodies. Then it's just a matter of running cpan from the shell and switching to cpanp from there if you prefer. I recommend not running your box as root so you'll have to sudo cpan to install stuff and sudo make install if you're doing stuff outside the CPAN shell. It's a couple extra steps but it makes it much less likely you'll hose your installation, or worse.

In reply to Re: Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X? by Your Mother
in thread Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X? by Anonymous Monk

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