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Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by dws (Chancellor) on Mar 30, 2003 at 00:24 UTC
... as I am making many changes right now I thought I would solicit the opinion of our community as to the best distribution available. I don't know about best, but I'm putting ActiveState on my new XP laptop a few moments after it arrives next week. Aside from repository hiccups, I've had very good luck with ActiveState's distribution.	[reply]
Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by vek (Prior) on Mar 30, 2003 at 00:37 UTC
jerrygarciuh - FWIW, I've had ActiveState on my wife's XP box for a little over a year now without any problems whatsoever. -- vek --	[reply]
Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by fokat (Deacon) on Mar 30, 2003 at 02:24 UTC
ActiveState is what I recommend to everybody and this is what lives in my Win98SE box at home. I am not familiar with other pre-compiled distribution for the Wintel platform, but anyway this seems to be the most popular anyway. I think your other choice, provided you have a C compiler, is to build your own Perl from sources. I've never needed to do that... You might also take a look at running Perl under cygwin, but you should have a very good reason to do so. Just remember to grab gzip/gunzip and nmake along with your ActiveState distribution :) Best regards -lem, but some call me fokat Update: Also check which build of ActivePerl will you download. At the time of this writing, both 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 are out. I am running 5.8.0 in my PowerBook and have found no issues with it so far, but YMMV.	[reply]
Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by hsmyers (Canon) on Mar 30, 2003 at 06:04 UTC
The three main choices are: ActiveState Indigo Cygwin Yes you could roll your own, but other than for educational purposes, why? I use AS on all of my boxen and wouldn't look else where... --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]
Re: Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by Marza (Vicar) on Mar 30, 2003 at 06:21 UTC
Activestate is the main guy in the arena. At work we use it, at home I use Indigo. Kind of like supporting others so competition keeps the main guy from getting sloppy due to owning the market. Update: Sorry that was supposed to be a response to the main thread	[reply]
Re: Which Perl for my new XP box? by strat (Canon) on Mar 30, 2003 at 10:46 UTC
If you do also web development, you could try WAMPP from www.apachefriends.org. This is a combination of Apache, Mysql, ActivestatePerl (mod_perl or CGI), PHP for Windows (with addons like phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL and the like). It is very easy to install, and I like to use it for development boxes under Win2k and WinXP. I prefer using it in combination with the command line tools from cygwin (installed with Windows line endings) where I get tools like tar and so on required by CPAN and CPANPLUS. I just don't like the CPAN's configuration of WAMPP (told the author, but no response); but if you delete the CPAN-configuration file (e.g. X:\wampp1\perl\lib\CPAN\Config.pm) and then restart CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell), then you can enter your configuration easily. Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply]


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