On 23/04/2011 13:46, Sue Spence wrote: >> Beyond installing my own Perl > > Do this. Best to ignore the system Perl IMO.
I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time I've been using OS X, and I don't recall any problems. (Of course, that may be the RDF talking.) In fact, I get annoyed with things like macports/fink/etc that won't accept system Perl (or system X11) and try and do their own thing, and have since switched to homebrew, which seems to get a lot right.