On 2015-01-18 at 14:11:35 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 01:32:09PM -0600, Zakariyya Mughal wrote: > > … but my main concern is how to make installing and learning these > > tools easier… > > Installation shouldn't be too bad. I think most Linux distros have > Perl out of the box, and I'd expect OS X to bundle it as well. Git > uses Perl for a number of internal scripts, so I'd expect Git for > Windows installs it [1]. If not, then you'd certainly get it with the > msysGit build environment [2].
Yes, those should work. Even MATLAB comes with its own version of Perl. :-P Greg mentioned that there are scripts to perform a sanity check of the environment for a given lesson. Where are those located? For Windows, Strawberry Perl might be better since it has a newer version of Perl and comes with a compiler and libffi support in case we see a need to use tools from CPAN. Regards, - Zaki Mughal > > Cheers, > Trevor > > [1]: https://msysgit.github.io/#download > [2]: https://msysgit.github.io/#download-msysgit > > -- > This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). > For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
