On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 02:01 PM, william ross wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: >> >> here's your immediate problem: >> >>> CPAN build and cache directory? [/Users/rjolly/.cpan] y >> >> to accept the default, just press return. having answered 'y', your >> cache directory is now './y', which doesn't exist. You can correct >> that by editing CPAN/MyConfig.pm, but you needn't bother. Having >> installed 5.8.0 over the apple default (as i did, and came to >> regret), you'll need to run -MCPAN as root to install modules anyway. > > Duh! Thanks. I thought "y" was a strange directory name when I saw it > in the output, but I didn't make the connection. > > Why is it such a bad idea to replace Apple's 5.6? I could reinstall > 10.2 just to revert that, I guess. Would it be worth it?
Heh. Probably not. It's just that the air here is full of gloomy prognostications that make me wish I'd left things as they were. 5.8.0 hasn't actually caused any trouble: my main reason for regretting it was the two days I spent afterwards building variants of apache and mod_perl, but that turned out well in the end. i _think_ that as long as you check to make sure that the modules which make up apple's core distribution are present in your 5.8.0, it will be ok. in many cases it won't matter if they're not (eg Apache::*), but anything inexplicable should probably be carefully replaced. It would be good to have a semi-official word from apple on this question, though, especially since they published Morbus's article recommending the replacement. I've sent a chirpy enquiry to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that's the address on the article - but am not holding breath. best will
