Re: OSX Seperate Install: PerlBrew or Activestate?

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to OSX Separate Install: PerlBrew or Activestate?

Is it simply preference or are there any significant differences in how each perform, handle Perl installs and manage modules?

There is no difference in those respects. ActiveState comes with the latest and greatest version of ppm and that is about it, the rest are modules on CPAN (like old version of ppm). Also, if you buy a license, you also get some kind of support... ActiveState does patch some core modules, but nothing too radical.

Installing with cpan/cpanp/cpanm with either perl is the same, and like the documentation for perlbrew shows, you just modify your $PATH

[jand]

ActivePerl includes a Perl::Critic GUI frontend (the screenshot is for the Windows version, but the GUI is included in the OS X and Linux releases of ActivePerl as well).

ActivePerl also includes the Tkx module that is used to implement the PPM and Perl::Critic GUIs. However, it does not include wxPerl, you'll have to install it yourself from the wxperl PPM repo, or build it with the CPAN shell. But that is no different from what you have to do when you use perlbrew either.

[Anonymous Monk]

Actually its not included with ActivePerl, but its part of ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit

[jand]

Not true. It was originally released with the PDK only, but now is freely available with ActivePerl as well.

Disclaimer: I'm the ActiveState Perl tech lead, responsible for both ActivePerl and PDK releases, so I'm pretty sure about this. :)