On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Leo Lapworth <l...@cuckoo.org> wrote: > 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/ > > >
Thanks for the tip especially about strawberry professional, I had been watching Padre fail too install for the past hour or so on 5.12 and its installed and working by default now. Sayth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
