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Good insight, having never tried that on Linux, I can't comment, but on Windows (based on experience) it isn't perfect.

The killer is the file associations (assoc) which tie the .pl extension to a specific executable. So no matter what your system PATH environment variable is, you may not be executing with the Perl version you think you are unless you're calling your scripts with 'perl.exe <scriptname>' specifically.

I've seen other options talked about on this site (Perlbrew for one, IIRC) but I don't know about the Windows support.

I do have Strawberry 5.14.x (can't remember) installed on a Windows VM on my current Windows box, but it takes so bloody long to launch that I rarely ever use it unless I'm looking to release something into the wild (CPAN) and want to validate on different versions (in which case I also have an Ubuntu VM with Perl 5.10.x for limited *nix testing). So there is another multiple-version approach, albeit not the most efficient

In reply to Re^2: Perl 64-bit versions by VinsWorldcom
in thread Perl 64-bit versions by BrowserUk

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