Re: Does anyone use Perl on Windows?

[Discipulus]

Hello stevieb,

> Are future efforts worthwhile?

yes please! for Perl to be usable with the flexibility provided by berrybrew is a major plus. Even if windows does not comes with system's perl and so no problem from this, the ability to switch and test different perl incarnations is precious.

More: in general the Perl Community (give the expression the meaning you find more appropriate) is (with some degree of reason..) a bit of toffee-nosed (we say with stink in the noose in Eatalian) in respect of windows and this is really a pity.

I still see great CPAN authors writing that OS is not supported (also when it is not mandatory), failing tests because the lack of correct path management and this is for me like shooting on their own foot. Also CPAN smoking test machines for the win32 world always used to be from the steam power age.

Windows is there, happy or not for the fact and is a great share of the market, happy or not.

Strawberry Perl is really a sweetie and a mature project, to have berrybrew is huge plus also for newcomers programmers.

So thanks and go on! ..and if possible look also for a co-maintainer for this project just in the case you get too much bored :)

L*