Two Version Of Perl Side By Side

[ChloeRadshaw]

We have perl version 5 running at work and I need to be abel to install version 6 onto my machine to run some new perl modules which I have checked out of CPAN.

I have two questions:

1) Can you have 2 perl installations side by side? This is important because we have other apps that could be affected as a result.

2) Is there any way of installing Perl on a windows machine which does not have admin rights? Our admin has prevented us writing to the c:\program files direcory.

Any ideas much appreciated

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, version 4.0

perl for NT $$Revision: 4.0.1.8
Build 3
Patch level: 36

Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall
NT Copyright (c) 1993, Intergraph Corporation

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 4.0 source 
+kit.

[ikegami]

I have 6 versions of Perl installed my system. Perl can be installed to any directory and happily lives there independent of anything else, so you shouldn't need admin rights. You shouldn't install to "C:\Program Files\..." anyway because some scripts and/or modules have problems with spaces in paths.

[ikegami]

I need to be abel to install version 6 onto my machine to run some new perl modules which I have checked out of CPAN.

I wasn't aware of the presence of Perl 6 modules on CPAN. I'd appreciate it if you gave me an example if you're not talking about http://www.cpan6.org/

[LanX]

> I'd appreciate it if you gave me an example

most probably the OT talks about the Perl6:: "simulation" branch ... eg. Perl6::Say

in this case ... well ... no need to install perl6 straight away ... ; )

UPDATE: added irony indicator

[ikegami]

The Perl6:: modules add Perl6 features to Perl5.

[GrandFather]

Strawberry Perl and ActiveState's Perl install to c:\Perl by default so you don't need to be an admin to install on XP (I'm unsure about what Vista may allow). You can install Perl to a flash drive and run it from there. RFC: Perl-onna-Stick may help get things going with Strawberry in that fashion.

[planetscape]

The OP may also wish to consider:

• Portable perl: usb thumbdrive
• Never without (win32) perl
• Running Perl standalone, e.g. from a USB key
• Perl on a bootable USB key
• Minimal Perl

[CountZero]

I have my Activestate Perl installed in c:\data, which is on my Windows machine the place where we can install applications without having admin rights. However, a part of the install script wants to make some changes to the registry and that fails if you have no admin rights. I figured out it has to do with the path (so perl your_script.pl just works) and with associating the .pl extension with the perl interpreter. You can easily do these things by hand.

[FunkyMonk]

I hope you are aware that the specification of the Perl 6 language isn't complete yet, and the current implementations are "getting there" but still have some way to go.

[Anonymous Monk]

Pick a directory, any directory, manage your enviroment (path ...) and you can have a million perl's side by side

/blah/blah/perl1/
/blah/blah/perl2/
/blah/blah/perl3/
/blah/blah/perl4/
/blah/blah/blah/