Getting started with Perl development on your new mac.

This is basically how I get started myself nowadays:

- I install Xcode (from the dvd or from ADC)
- I install MacPorts using the dmg http://www.macports.org/install.php
- I install perl5.10 (first thing after install MacPorts) This will nicely override System's Perl without altering it: (see also my other post)

 sudo port install perl5 +perl5_10

- I install local::lib (which keeps all my installed Perl modules local, in my home directory): Basically I run the bootstrapping steps provided by http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?local::lib
- I install git:

sudo port install git-core +bash_completion+doc+svn

- Then I install my dotfiles (I basically clone http://github.com/yannk/dotfiles-yann and run make) (which has settings for local::lib, git etc...). I mention it here because I find it convenient for me, but it's totally optional of course.
- Then I install CPAN Minus...

git clone git://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus.git
cd cpanminus
perl Makefile.PL
make install

and voila!

Then each time I need a module from the cpan it resolves around a simple:

cpanm Module

in most cases, thanks to the elegance of CPAN minus. For a bit more complex cases (when there is an external dependency, like a C library), I first install the missing libs from macports).