Hi, On 27 May 2011 10:26, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > On Friday 27 May 2011 09:35:32 Sayth Renshaw wrote: >> Which Perl Should I use ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl on Windows? 5.10 or >> 5.12? > > Definitely Strawberry Perl: it is free-as-in-beer, open-source, free-as-in- > speech, community-driven,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHYPM6e55o shows the steps (although 5.12.3 is out so I must updated that). > and allows you to install stuff from CPAN without > having to resort to a lot of proprietary and costly software from Microsoft. ActiveState claim to now includes all the build code automatically or via PPM (MiniGW / dmake) so you don't need to buy anything from Microsoft. You can use their PPM modules (already compiled) but the cpan install tool will also build from scratch. > You should make use of the latest version of perl 5 available for it - namely > 5.12.x , as 5.10.x was recently end-of-lifed, and there's now perl-5.14.x. At the moment I'd recommend Strawberry Perl Professional (from http://strawberryperl.com/beta/) even though it is 5.10 because it has lots of extra CPAN modules (the ones with tricky install issues) included, I've been told a Pro version for 5.12 is being worked on and should be available in a few weeks. 5.14 is being worked on for Strawberry - but my understanding is that won't have the 'Pro' version for quite a while (unless someone wants to volunteer to help). Cheers Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
