Phil Dobbin wrote: >On 10/02/2004, at 11:27 (GMT), wren argetlahm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > >>I'm a newbie to Perl on *nix and am in the process of converting >>from MacPerl to OSX and I've just recently downloaded the developer >>tools for OSX10.2 because I was under the impression that they're >>necessary to really use Perl on OSX (i.e. to use CPAN, Camel Bones, >>etc). But installing the packages'll take nearly a gig which is >>more space than I have on my startup partition; so I'm wondering if >>they really are necessary to use Perl? > >[...] > >Under 10.2 you do need the developer tools to fully utilise Perl >(gcc for make files, etc). > >IIRC, the latest Perl (5.8.3) doesn't require the dev tools to be >installed (I *think* that dependency seen off in 5.8.2) but maybe >that's only on 10.3.x. > The dev tools contain perldoc, gcc etc. So the CD is the easiest way to a complete Perl installation.
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