On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > StrawberryPerl already bundles MinGW whereas you have to install it separately > in ActivePerl. Otherwise they work pretty much the same at the Perl level. > Once you install MinGW you can use the CPAN shell with ActivePerl just fine. > It even reconfigures itself automatically for use with either VC/nmake or > GCC/dmake depending on whether it finds cl.exe on the PATH or not.
That reminds me that it's also possible that ActivePerl may be faster than Strawberry Perl because ActivePerl is compiled with MSVC and Strawberry is compiled with MinGW. David
