On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> chocolatey is a package manager for windows, similar to > apt/yum/dnf/pacman/etc. > for Linux - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuGet#Chocolatey and it is > not > specific to perl. It allows one to install a strawberry perl package, which > should be the same as the one from http://strawberryperl.com/ . Ok, that Nougat pun is bad enough i'm sorry i asked ! I was apparently confounding the name of the package manager with the old Strawberry flavor https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Dist::Chocolate , no -y . Googling my own answer, alias (Adam Kennedy) eoy2007 "Vanilla and Strawberry (and Chocolate) Perl 2008 Plans <http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/article0ed4.html>" > This class of user is going to want/need a richer, bloatier distribution, > with GUIs for most functionality, and a large "core library" of modules > available out of the box. As an environment it needs to be far more > approachable. > > I've previously called this concept "Chocolate Perl", and it can be > loosely defined as being "Strawberry + Modules + GUI Tools". > and bdf 2014 https://www.windowsperl.com/2014/01/10/strawberry-perl/ > The January 2009 [Strawberry Perl] release added a fully portable “Perl on > a stick” version that included a Perl program to fix up paths based on > where it was installed. > > Strawberry Perl was supposed to lead to Chocolate Perl, something enhanced > even further for people who were familiar with Windows but not Perl. It > would include GUI tools and other niceties to avoid the command line (See > Vanilla and Strawberry (and Chocolate) Perl 2008 Plans). > > The Strawberry brand was enough for most people. In 2010 Curtis Jewell > created “Strawberry Perl Professional” as an enhanced distribution with big > frameworks, such as Catalyst, and task oriented sets of modules, such as > BioPerl. There are other distributions built on top of Strawberry Perl, > such as DWIM Perl, that add GUI tools. > So it sounds like DWIM Perl was a resurrection of Chocolate that stalled more recently (2012, Perl 5.14) but still stalled. (Even bdf's win-perl blog https://www.windowsperl.com/ is stuck in 2016.) So yes, it does look like Strawberry Perl (direct with choice of MSI, ZIP, Portable Perl-on-a-Stick, or PDL; or via Chocolatey) is the only 5.26 choice for Windows (besides build from source): no bundled gui nor monster-module-list. [ Although one might presume the commercial/community "freemium" ActivePerl will update from 5.24 soon ? ActiveState at least has (had, i presume still has) a package manager so many things not installed initially are easier to add than CPAN via Windows. ] One could take a list of what modules DWIM and Chocolate layered on (if only by dumping your DWIM lib ) and use local::lib and/or cpanm to install them (provided you have the matching mingw compiler for anything fancy). ( I do like that Strawberry offers a PDL Perl alternative install. ) -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
