How Are the Cool Kids Installing Perl on OSX Nowadays?

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  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

    • I'm using Homebrew for "all the stuff", not only Perl. Works like a charm.

  • mac-perl-versions

    A JSON file of the versions of Perl released with each Mac version

    • macOS actually distributes perl as two perls (see my list at mac-perl-versions). You can choose which you want with the VERSIONER_PERL_VERSION environment variable. Don't use a point version in your value:

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  • dot-files

    My dotfiles (by oalders)

    • plenv here as well. This is my installer script https://github.com/oalders/dot-files/blob/main/installer/plenv.sh

  • perl5

    🐪 The Perl programming language

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