On Jul 16, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jul 16, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Sergej Zoubok wrote:
2. I've also just installed Fink (excellent!). In experimenting with it, I installed Template Toolkit. It seems that it installed it again 5.8.1 despite my use of the older perl for the fink installation. I would have thought that fink would use the perl that comes first in my path, but apparently not.
You're giving Fink far too much credit there. It simply copies the files in the packages - it doesn't examine your environment or do a proper module installation. If you're not using the stock Perl, Fink is useless when it comes to Perl modules. (Even if you are using the stock Perl, Fink is still damn near useless for modules...)
I don't think that's true - fink downloads source and compiles packages itself, after perhaps making some OS-X-specific patches. If you want to install binary packages, you use apt-get or dselect, not fink (apt-get and dselect are installed as part of the fink system).
Also, fink can function with several alternative types of perl installation:
perl560 5.6.0-14 Practical extraction and report language, v. 5.6.0
perl560-core 5.6.0-14 Core files for perl, v. 5.6.0
perl581-core [virtual package]
i system-perl 5.8.1-1 [virtual package representing perl]
system-perl581 [virtual package]
The "i" in the first column means that's the package I currently have installed, so fink knows I'm using the perl that shipped with Panther.
That said, I generally install perl modules without using fink, unless it's some horribly complicated process (PDL used to be this way, though I haven't tried it in a while) that I'd rather have automated.
-Ken
