Updating Perl

[Mine]

Hi,

Does this mean that I can't or should not install Perl 5.10.1?

It is available as a port, and I think I remember reading somewhere
on CPAN that installing 5.10.1 can live along side 5.8.8.
Is that correct?

Will the .Profile doc created by MacPorts reflect the new install, so
5.10.1 will be the defaul Perl?

Terrence


On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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
>
>