Hi Randal, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 01:29, Randal L. Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com> wrote: > I interviewed Curtis Jewell for FLOSS Weekly last week about Strawberry > Perl.
I listened to the interview yesterday. I heard you were asking questions about if you could run mod_perl on Windows with StrawberryPerl. Yes, you can, it's pretty easy to do this, both with ActiveState or with Strawberry. The biggest issue is actually not Perl, it's Apache, they still don't have official 64-bit binaries available for Windows (they do have binaries for NetWare!). So you'll have to compile your own 64-bit apache if you need that. I work for the OTRS Group, we produce AGPL-licensed web based help desk software based on Perl. We provide a windows based installer that contains several components, such as MySQL, StrawberryPerl, mod_perl and apache, plus our helpdesk app, for ease of installation. We see many people like to install our software on their laptop or workstation to evaluate it and after that deploy it on their server. For the evaluation the bundled software install is great. For license reasons we would not be able to bundle ActiveState, but we CAN bundle Strawberry Perl, which is great. Our server deployments are around 70% on linux and 30% Windows. -- Mike
