Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / October 2006

The perldoc on CPAN suggests CPANPLUS but doesn't describe how to  
access it or read the documentation.
I tried perldoc CPANPLUS and perldoc cpanplus and perl -MCPANPLUS - e  
shell, but perl says it can't find any such thing.

me too,
ok, now, with no sdk options, build perl is ok.
#./configure ....
#make

PPC Mac Mini, Mac OS X 10.4.8, I'm following along in README.macosx  
and I've done this:
export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
and I call

I know that Tiger comes with 5.8.6 but I would like to get 5.8.8 up and
running.
I am just wondering if I should:
a) download and compile Perl myself and replace the Tiger version

Hello, I am trying to make my DBI application faster. According to  
DBD::mysql documentation I should be able to prepare a query that I'm  
going to use in a loop so that when I execute it inside the loop, it  
goes faster.  In order to maximize this performance improvement, you  

do yoy know how to upgrade perl on panther from 5.8.1-rc3 to 5.8.8 ?

I have a Unicode string that I would like to convert into quoted-
printable encoding, but if I do:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use utf8;