>You they *will* be releasing an article on installing Perl 5.8, then you >said you haven't tested it on 10.1 yet, so that implies you have access to >the article. So where is it? Do you work for Apple? (Is that why you posted >that 'Note' at the end? ;-).
I wrote the article for Apple, yes. I don't work for or represent them. >Hey that's great, so can I just `sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Perl` or will >that chunk up my system somehow? You could, yes, if that 14 megs was just >"DOS"?! Ugh... is that really what they call it instead of a CLI? No, that's what I called it. It was an exaggeration - long time Mac users probably encountered a DOS command line more then they encountered a Linux command line. It was a metaphoric jump. Ignore me. >Well, if you have a GUI-loving CLI-hater, then why couldn't you kill two >birds with one stone by just mapping Apple's hyper-mneumonic directory >layout onto the standard BSD locations via soft links? That implies an "alias", and an "alias" is something a user can supposedly delete. If a user deleted an alias (either by authenticating as the "root" user - also a matter of discontent with long time Mac users, "I'm the only user on the machine! Why can't I delete this freakin' file!"), then the user should be able to easily recreate it at any time. Since a Mac alias and a symlink are two different things, the user still would need a world of knowledge (one, to find out that a symlink and an alias are different, two, to find out that there's BSD underneath, and three, to find out how to create a symlink in the first place). -- Morbus Iff ( were you a community theatre satan? ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Tech: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 - articles and weblog icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
