Hi everybody, 2008/11/26 Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd like to have an idea What do you use Perl for on Windows? Our web service runs off a Windows server, as we need to use some Windows-only third-party libraries. The others in my company are unfamiliar with Linux but have programmed in Windows, so keeping our server on Windows gives them some assurance that should we suffer a developer-under-train incident, they'll be able to take over things without too much fuss. The service itself is pretty straightforward Windows-Apache-Perl-PostgreSQL; we use Perl to write the CGI scripts which comprise the website, the cleanup and backup scripts, and all test suites.
> In addition I'd like to know what is the single biggest thing > you are missing from Perl on Windows? I'd like to say "package management", but that's more Windows' fault than Perl's. The Unixish bias of Perl developers makes it quite tricky to compile some modules sometimes - which I usually don't file bugs about, because it's usually so much quicker and more convenient to TIMTOWDI around the problematic modules instead of isolating the specific problem, and because most of the problems are likely my own lack of experience with make/compile on Windows. Improving the win32.perl.org wiki, especially with more HOWTO-type articles, would also make it a more valuable resource. Incidently: why did you post this question here, and not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both seem about equally active. Is the Perl-on-Windows community split up between the two mailing lists? Should I be subscribed to both? cheers, Gaurav
