On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 00:09 Europe/Brussels, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:05 PM, stephen rouse wrote:I don't agree, I have no problems at all.. I followed instructions from an Apple Doc..
i take it installing 5.8 is a bad idea?
Installing it over your stock Perl is a bad idea. Installing it somewhere safe - I prefer /opt - is perfectly harmless.
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html
And have had NO problems..
uname -a
Darwin incc-imac.local. 6.4 Darwin Kernel Version 6.4: Wed Jan 29 18:50:42 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.26.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
==================================================== I use Perl extensively and have had no problems..
Ciao,
Jerry
