Re: [MacPerl] installing libraries in mac perl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10:10 +0900 1999.10.15, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:
>>At 19:55 -0400 1999.10.11, Karl Long wrote:
>>>so I just downloaded a module and it's a tar.gz, I can unstuff that,
>>>I tried to run makefile.pl and I got this error:
>
>Chris Nandor  replied:
>>Don't do that.  Read the MacPerl book on module installation (it is also
>>online) or read macperlmodinstall.
>>
>>    http://www.macperl.com/ptf_book/
>>    http://pudge.net/macperl/macperlmodinstall.html
>>    http://pudge.net/macperl/macperlmodinstall.pod
>>
>
>Ok this isn't intended to start a war but shouldn't that kind of
>information be placed in the docs/distribution, rather than kept on a web
>site?

Yes, of course.  Unfortunately, this information has all been created since
the last distribution of MacPerl was released.  It will be included in the
next distribution.


>And while I'm thinking about it what ever happened to the faq?

How do you mean?  perlfaq is distributed with MacPerl, and has been ever
since it was added to the perl docset.  The MacPerl FAQ is not, but perhaps
it will be in the next distribution.


>Are we
>even trying to be newbie friendly :) ?

Yes, very much so.

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