使用 Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop 安装 perl

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• corelist
• cpan
• enc2xs
• encguess
• h2ph
• h2xs
• instmodsh
• json_pp
• libnetcfg
• perl
• perl5.44.0
• perlbug
• perldoc
• perlivp
• perlthanks
• piconv
• pl2pm
• pod2html
• pod2man
• pod2text
• pod2usage
• podchecker
• prove
• ptar
• ptardiff
• ptargrep
• shasum
• splain
• streamzip
• xsubpp
• zipdetails

项目历史

Larry Wall created Perl as a practical language for text processing and systems work. The official release record dates Perl 1.000 to 18 December 1987; successive major lines expanded regular-expression support, binary-data handling, and the broader language model.

Perl 5.000 arrived on 17 October 1994 and became the basis of the actively maintained language represented by this package. Development is community-run by the Perl 5 Porters, and the primary source repository is maintained under the Perl organization on GitHub.

采用历史

Perl became a standard Unix scripting and system-administration language and expanded into web development, networking, database work, testing, and general application development. Its portability across a large range of systems helped make interpreters and development packages routine entries in operating-system package collections.

CPAN established Perl's central module-distribution culture. The core distribution includes tools such as `cpan`, `perldoc`, `prove`, and numerous POD and archive utilities, so installing Perl provides both the runtime and a substantial language-tooling environment.

使用方式

Execute a source file with `perl program.pl`, use a shebang for directly executable scripts, or use `-e`/`-E` for command-line programs. `perldoc` provides the installed manuals, while `cpan` configures and installs modules from CPAN.

The bundled CPAN client stores user-specific settings in `~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm`; a site configuration can be supplied as `CPAN/Config.pm`. These are CPAN-client settings rather than universal Perl interpreter configuration files.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Perl is foundational package-manager culture: CPAN demonstrated how a language community could organize a large shared module archive, dependency installation, local configuration, testing conventions, and mirrored distribution infrastructure.

The runtime is also an enduring systems concern. Many operating systems ship or package Perl, while tools such as plenv and Perl-Build exist for users who need isolated or customized interpreters instead of the system copy.

时间线

• 1987: Perl 1.000 was released.
• 1991: Perl 4.000 was released.
• 1994: Perl 5.000 established the modern Perl line.
• 2019: Primary Perl 5 development moved to the Perl organization on GitHub.

Related projects

• CPAN is Perl's principal module archive and supplies the ecosystem used by the bundled `cpan` client.
• Perl-Build compiles and installs selected Perl releases, while plenv selects among installed runtimes using shims and project-local version files.
• Raku originated under the Perl 6 name but is now a separate language with its own development team.

来源

• https://dev.perl.org/perl5/
• https://github.com/Perl/perl5
• https://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN
• https://perldoc.perl.org/perl
• https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist
• https://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun
• https://www.perl.org/about.html