At 12:32 PM -0600 1/12/03, Puneet Kishor wrote: >I love perl, and choose it over anything I can avoid. I do things >with it that I wouldn't start doing with other languages (granted, >my needs are pretty narrow). But I do want Perl to be easier to >install, maintain, and difficult to bugger up. As much as I like >Morbus's articles on Apache, I think it was really wrong for Apple >to commission that article on Perl 5.8.0 because now most everyone >thinks that Perl 5.8.0 is now sanctioned and they can go upgrade. >Add Fink to picture which does its own voodoo and what we have is a >royal pain in the derierre. > >To those who still have the stock install -- for the love of god, >don't upgrade if you don't have to. Perl 5.6.0 works just fine for >me, and probably will for most of you. Don't even bother with Fink, >as much good as the idea of Fink might be. Upgrade only if your life >and your work requires it. There is nothing but grief that will >follow otherwise.
I haven't had any problems with 5.8, nor any problems with CPAN modules (once I had my environment set up), but I don't use fink. Several people recommended it, but I looked over what they had to offer (and listened to people on this list having nothing but trouble with the way fink did things) and decided to stick with what I know. I feel a little antiquated on this forum, using perl under emacs and installing my CPAN modules one at a time by hand, but, hey, it works. -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.
