Re: Issue building Glib with Homebrew's libglib-2.0 (solution?)

[Zakariyya Mughal <zaki mughal gmail com>]

On 2016-10-06 at 22:52:46 -0700, Brian Manning wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Zakariyya Mughal <zaki mughal gmail com> wrote:
> > I see that the problem is that I am using the system Perl.
>
> I strongly recommend against using system Perl on OS X.  Once you've
> had Apple switch out system Perl via Software Update in a point
> release with a binary incompatible version, you'll understand why I
> say this.

On that note, when distributing a Perl application via homebrew as I am
attempting to do here <https://github.com/project-renard/homebrew-project-renard>,
do you think it would be wise to build a version of Perl as a
dependency of the application?

That way there is no way that an application to could break if another
Perl version is installed/upgraded. The downside is that it takes up
more storage space. The PDL dev team takes a similar approach for
distributing PDL as SciPDL as a .dmg file.

Cheers,
- Zaki Mughal

> Thanks,
>
> Brian