Updating Perl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 17:23, Mine wrote:

> After spending a considerable amount of time trying to get  
> get_iplayer to work
> with my MacPorts installed Perl 5.8.8, I have come to the conclusion  
> that perhaps
> I should upgrade my Perl to 5.10.1.
>
> I have tried to uninstall 5.8.8 but it has a number of dependencies:
> p5-locale-gettext, help2man, autoconf, automake, and faad2.
>
> Is there an easier way to upgrade Perl or do I have to remove these  
> programs
> which no doubt also have other dependencies.

At this point, a lot of ports in MacPorts require perl 5.8. Hopefully  
this situation will be sorted out soon and we will be using perl 5.10  
instead. The ticket:


http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830