[pgh-pm] things I learned about Perl today

Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp.perl.pm.pgh at weftsoar.net
Mon Apr 25 07:45:34 PDT 2011


On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:42:40 -0700, Faisal N Jawdat <faisal at faisal.com> wrote:
> What I learned about Perl today: Perl life on a Mac is much *much* happier if you don't fight with the system install and instead build the default distro into /usr/local (or wherever you put such things in your path). This is doubly true if you use things of CPAN.

True, and not just on a Mac.  On most Linux distributions it's easier to have
the "system perl" and "app perl".

Apropos and very useful:
http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/App-perlbrew-0.18/bin/perlbrew

hdp.


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