Re: Installing Perl on a Windows PC

[hexcoder]

I strongly suggest to avoid installation directory paths containing spaces.

The reason is:
later when adding modules, Makefiles generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker most probably will not work. The needed extra quoting for spaces in nested Makefile variables is very complex and not supported by MakeMaker.

I often had this problem when being forced to use a company installed perl in C:\Program Files\...