Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / December 2005

Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules?
I really dislike installing them.  And more and more I find I need
to.  So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more.
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Anyone know?
I've looked around on the web, and it looks like I'm playing with
edge-of-the-world stuff and rather OS and browser dependent.
The source I'm working with:

Dear List
I'm attempting to use CPAN for the first time ...
CPAN builds by default a directory structure under .cpan in my home
directory.

I came across characters with incorrect encodings in a web-page I was
trying to validate. [Incorrect, that is, in context. I'm sure they
were fine in MS Word or wherever they originated.]
So, one character is a smart, single quote:

I'm running Tiger with my own perl-5.8.6 installed in /usr/local/
perl-5.8.6 and symlink at /usr/bin/perl pointing to /usr/local/
perl-5.8.6/bin/perl
with a TON of CPAN modules. It was also used to build an apache/

I find a problem of a rel2abs method of File::Spec module.
rel2abs can't treat relative paths which starts with '../'.
example:
use File::Spec;

The script below prints a list of 34 Burmese characters.  I happen to
have a font for these but I'm not sure that matters.
If I run the script in BBEdit or TextWrangler just after launching
the apps, there is a huge delay before the output is printed (up to