On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I decideded to upgrade by running CPAN. That is while in CPAN typing
> "install Bundle::CPAN", and reading the choices for libraries and the
> like. My normal approach is to always let PERL (oops I mean) perl figure
> it out. This looks dangerous with OS X and even more dangerous with
> fink.
Well I haven't been using Fink to do this stuff -- /usr/bin/cpan works
fine as a shortcut for "perl -MCPAN -e shell", and I'm almost positive it
came with OSX/base or OSX/devtools (that is, it's there & I don't recall
installing it or having anything else install it, but then I didn't notice
it there at first & maybe that's because it wasn't -- but I think it was).
It's reasonable to be careful, but I really think you're okay here.
> Do I need to include the Fink libraries someplace as well.
The default CPAN install points seem to be:
~/Library/Perl
* user-level stuff -- I haven't even created it so far
/Library/Perl
* system-wide local installs -- usual place for things to go
/System/Library/Perl
* stock libraries -- leave this alone ("property of apple inc")
/Network/Library/Perl
* network accessible sharepoints, if you need that
Surprisingly, /usr/$foo doesn't seem to be used much for Perl modules. (I
haven't noticed anything at all going in there...) And yes, Fink normally
puts everything under /sw/$foo. You're probably best off by extending your
Perl's @INC path by iirc $ENV{PERL5LIB}. I think.
> I expect if I could figure out the right values for the entries in the
> inition config.sh I could achieve success. Somehow, I get the feeling if
> I want OSX-perl-Fink to all work together - I can't just accept the
> defaults.
You might want to sign up for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and look over its archives
at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/. I've read a lot of
problem reports, but accepting CPAN.pm's selections doesn't seem like it
has been a big problem for most people.
> > [1] No CAPS please, it's not really an acronym -- the "Pathologically
> > Eclectic Rubbish Lister" is kind of a joke that got out of hand.[2]
>
> Your right about this of course. Though I had read Programming perl so
> casually and incompletely that I had thought it was derived from
> "practical expression and report language".
No you'e right, that's what it says, but apparently the name was chosen
and then a pseudo-acronym was retrofitted on to it. The OED writeup is
pretty interesting: basically the name was picked because it's positive
and short to type, with the dropped A to avoid conflicting with an older
language. The acronyms -- rubbish lister, report language -- appear in
some of the oldest documentation, but the name did precede them. Check
out <http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html#2000s>, and scroll down
to the Oxford English Dictionary link (a dozen items down or so).
:)
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
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