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Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-will-i-regex-now dept.

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!?)'."

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  1. Re:Super bad for Servers by Ash-Fox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apple needs to decide if they're going to regularly and consistently update the open-source software that their Server OS runs. If not, leave it alone and let the users apply and configure updates. This wishy-washy, middle-ground, Jobsy-come-lately approach is just an annoyance and an inconvenience.

    I completely agree.

    Mod parent up.

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