> -----Original Message----- > From: Cosimo Streppone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:30 AM > To: The elegant MVC web framework > Subject: Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development > > In data 19 februar 2009 alle ore 16:12:36, Matt Pitts > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > >> I think that the success of other languages, especially Python is > also > >> due to the fact that they support better Windows than Perl. > >> [...] > > > Sad to say, but I completely agree with this. It's quite ironic how > the > > drive of open source has only furthered the need for OS agnostic > > software and platforms, which in turn, has actually made life harder > for > > things like Perl that have strong origins in *nix OSes. > > > > [...] > > > I really, really want to be able to "just run" my Cat apps in > Windows, > > and I probably could get it going under ActiveState or Strawberry if > I > > stuck to it > > Does that mean that you haven't tried?
I have, but I stopped working on CPAN installs in Strawberry when Data::UUID was failing with a build error that I don't remember. > > but I _need_ it to not be that hard. I'm sure I'm not the > > only one. > > It's _not_ that hard. > Perl has been good in the Windows world for long. > Strawberry has improved this a great deal. > > Perl on Windows runs most of CPAN without problems. > And yes, I sent my small amount of patches too, whenever > it hurt me. Yes, I need to be more proactive about it and figure out why it's not working, maybe when I get some tuits. > Perl fully supports building on MSVC from 6 to 2008, > and Win32 GCC. Thanks for the pointers. Talking about it makes me want to try and figure it out again. v/r -matt _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
