On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> umm .. for a windows install where Activestate Perl seems to be the
> standard then yes, its fair enough. For a *nix tool it MUST work with a
> standard Perl install or it is of zero use (to me) .. I do not have any
> intention of installing Activestate Perl on my Linux box or using it in a
> production environment.
IMHO the Linux port is an afterthought, most of the effort seems to have
been focused on the Windows side, the integration with Visual Studio
springs to mind.
> I've been through all the frustration I can cope with trying to get
> various CPAN modules to install with Activestate Perl under windows,
> waiting for the 'coming real soon' PPM version only to discover it was
> still not the latest release etc etc. (thinks back to DBI::Proxy under
> windows ..) I have no intention of extending that experience to Unix :)
Mr Szemeti it seems we have met here before ;)
> I've sent a mail enquiring as to if it works on top of a standard Perl
> installation...
Let us know what they come back with.
> if it doesn't work on a standard Perl install its dead in the water IMHO
I can't see it taking off that much in the Nix world anyway, for some
reason IDE's always seem unwelcome (He adds writing this in vi and going
back to xemacs to code ;))
Dean
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