Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / February 2007

Do I need to rebuild "everything" to get mod_perl running on Tiger?
Robert

I have a server where the computer that I log into is a Mac Xserver 2.2
GHz Dual Processor machine with 2G ram.   I wrote some perl code to figure
out what is going on with Gridware.  Essentially it compares what gridware
thinks that it is doing with the files that are in the ...

Apple suggested I install something the other day. (Java or something like that.) I did it. Now I discover that many of my Perl scripts don't work.
The problem is with @INC. It appears to have been upgraded to Perl 5.8.8. For example, when I try
  use Date::Parse qw(str2time);
I ...

I would like to run a PERL script, which uses Net::FTP to retrieve a  
file and Mail::Sender to send it by email, from a PERL CGI.
Unfortunately, the second script never works  
("script_that_retrieves_a_file_by_ftp_and_sends_it_by_email.pl"  

I'm happy to announce the release of the Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2.
 http://www.activestate.com/products/perl_dev_kit/beta.plex
If you never heard of the Perl Dev Kit before:
 ActiveState Perl Dev Kit (PDK) is a suite of tools for rapidly