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Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl
mir writes "It looks like if you use CPAN to install modules, Apple's latest security update might just have broken your Perl. According to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa 'The Security Update brings (old) IO.bundle with version 1.22 but your IO.pm has been updated to the latest 1.23 on CPAN shell. (But hey, 1.23 was released in 2006...Why do you bring that ancient version back, Apple!?)'."
1. IMHO, at the moment, Apple offers the best quality PC you can get for money. Though I'm not a fanboi since I also generally take into account that money is (very) limited entity. If you are in market for tool with particular price/performance ratio, than Apple is definitely not for you. Yet, Apple "Just Works" with much higher probability than M$ or Linux powered systems. (Though with some vendors' systems Linux too reached the point of "Just Works".)
2. It happens all the time to Microsoft. Mostly because of their archaic, backward APIs they never really even attempt to clean up or provide clean way to access particular functionality. As Microsoft vs. fanbois case goes, it's more like everybody hates to be the slave of the M$ release strategy. And hey, I'd love to "murder" M$ too, since I'm dealing with the crap on daily basis.
Since M$ always sees the end-users of Windows only as a number on an accounting sheet, there are no true M$ fanbois (only people who forced themselves to like it because they have no choice). So obviously fanboism-wise there is a bias toward Apple (which sometimes actually listens to the unfiltered feedback from its users).
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
if Perl is broken? Seriously.