Hello,
I just installed LWP on MacOS X using the command "install LWP" in the
CPAN shell.
All seemed to go well.
Then I realized that my 'head' binary, which used to be located at
/usr/bin/head, had been overwritten by the HEAD script that installed
with LWP at /usr/bin/HEAD. Like most Mac OS X users, I am using the
(default) Apple HFS+ filesystem, which is unfortunately
case-insensitive. I shudder to think what other files have been
overwritten by other install scripts which expect to be run on a
case-sensitive unix filesystem. Since classic MacOS apps supposedly
can't live on other filesystems, I'm guess I'm stuck with HFS+ for now
(OS X supports other filesystems just fine; the legacy mac software many
of us still rely on does not). Anyway, I suppose this isn't specifically
an LWP problem, and probably affects numerous other non-perl packages as
well, but I wanted to mention it here nonetheless since I'm probably not
the only OS X LWP user out there.
-leif
