perl

[Alejandro Imass]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Masha Vecherkovskaya
>> <mashavecher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> It's not that I WANT to use CPAN. It was advised in Circos installation
>>> instructions. That is why I asked if I have a chance to mess up everything.
>>
>> When you install Perl from MacPorts you will be using that one and
>> should not have any conflicts with the system-installed Perl.
>>
>> You can use CPAN just fine and combine them with MacPorts Perl ports.
>> Usually you should try to stick with one method or the other, but it
>> really should make no difference.
>
> If you want to use CPAN (and you want to keep things somewhat simple for yourself) - you should install your CPAN libs into some other directory (something like ~/perl5 works).
>

Actually that's more complicated than what the OP decided to do which
is: (a) using MacPorts to install most of the things and (b) the use
CPAN shell to install what is not avail in the former. That's
intuitive and doesn't require to know exactly what you're doing.

These methods will work interchangeably and should create any
conflicts. We do extensive Perl development on Mac OS X and we use the
CPAN shell mostly and never had any issues at all. The only issue I
ever had was by removing some old perl modules before removing the old
perl version from MacPorts.

Best,

-- 
Alejandro Imass