On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:58:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> I think it's more than Windows accounts for 75% of the IDE market, rather
> than the Perl market...
> Anyway, I thought all this stuff about non-standard kinds of Win32 Perl was
> sorted out years ago. Activestate Perl is the same as anyone else's Perl,
> shurely? All the brain ache surrounding PPM and CPAN modules and XS is not
> strictly perl related is it? I mean how the hell do you install CPAN packges
> on EPOC perl or Mac Perl or any other platform that doesn't smell of Unix?
Your right, the perls are the same ActiveState are just a lot more aware of
what the OS can do and lacks the ability to do and tries to compensate for
them. If you have a stocked Windows box with nmake, VC++ and a bit of time
you can get CPAN working on it.
ActiveState also comes with some other stuff like the ability to use perl
in place of ASP and stuff like pl2bat. You can compile and use your own
perl just like you could on a Linux box but it just takes a bit more
effort and as the NMS project is showing making things easy is a good
thing. (Right watch Cantrell butcher me ;))
> I've I'm wrong and Activestate Perl is full of unreleased modifications to
> Perl itself
Ahh yes, through the ActiveState way you can control clippit ;)
Dean
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