On Wednesday something killed Windows on my old drive, so I started in on the install of the new one that we had lying around waiting to be installed. I am almost done getting everything just so on it but found a problem with how Strawberry set up Perl.

Ages ago I set up Perl on my computer using ActiveState Perl. Something about it bothered me, so after a long discussion about it here and elsewhere, I decided to install Strawberry. I had thought that I had gotten all of ActiveState uninstalled, but apparently I didn't.

Within the last couple of months, I had set up Apache so that I could test my scripts in my browser. Everything was working well. My scripts were displayed in my browser, and I was enjoying my successes and even some of my failures. (Sometimes failing is a good thing, it can lead to new insights.)

Now, with this new hard drive, I did fresh installs of all of the software just to keep the clutter down. However, Strawberry and ActiveState do not set up Perl the same. Now, I don't know what I want to do here.

1. Just use Strawberry, but go through all of my scripts and change I don't know how many shebangs to make it work (along with changing a few other things like the new root directory). Also, dig into my computer's configuration to get how Perl scripts run sorted out.
2. Uninstall Strawberry and install ActiveState so that I don't have to change all of those shebangs and hope that ActiveState sets up the computer the way it was with the old drive with a few minor exceptions of things I did separate of both installs.
3. Have both on the computer and see if there is a best of both worlds scenario.
4. Uninstall Strawberry and reinstall it using a custom directory to match what I already have in my scripts.

I am on the proverbial fence here. I just don't which "yard" to jump into. Any thoughts?

Update: Add fourth option which I am now considering.