On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, brian pink wrote: > My big question, and one I didn't see clearly articulated on their > site, is why would you use this install?
Some reasons I can come up with: * You want to use the latest maintenance version of Perl and not wait until Apple updates OS X. Panther ships with 5.8.1-RC3 and Tiger with 5.8.6. ActivePerl allows you to install 5.8.7 now. We plan to always have ActivePerl releases shortly after new Perl maintenance releases come out. * You want to install additional CPAN modules without installing the Xcode Tools to get a C compiler etc. ActivePerl includes PPM to install precompiled modules from the ActiveState repository. * You want to get a full set of searchable HTML docs for your Perl installation that is accessible from Apple Help. There are at least 2 reasons right now where the system Perl is better: * ActivePerl does not yet include wxPerl. * ActivePerl does not yet include mod_perl. But since ActivePerl does not modify/overwrite your system Perl you can use both in parallel if you need to. Cheers, -Jan
