So I was having a bit of a problem. I’ve got Perl installed with MacPorts – probably a little superfluous now seeing as Leopard is shipped with 5.8.8, but still. I’ve been wondering for a while about getting extra packages installed, and expected it to be as painful as many other unix tools are for OS X. How I was proved wrong!
Basically all you need to do is download the package from CPAN, extract it and drop the folder into /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 (for global addition of the package). The only caveat I found with this is that you need to make sure the naming is the same as you reference the package in Perl, so for example I wanted to use Statistics::Distributions, so I renamed the downloaded, extracted folder from Statistics-Distributions-1.01 to “Statistics” with Distributions.pm inside it, and it worked like a charm.
I’m guessing there will be some which need compiling and can prove to be a complete pain, but for now I’m impressed.
