On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Anthony R. Nemmer wrote: > Just out of curiousity, how do the Activestate releases of Perl differ > from the releases of Perl that you can get from CPAN, understanding of > course that the Windows Activestate Release will have Windows-specific > modules that the other Activestate Perl releases won't have.
The ActivePerl releases are binary distributions; you don't need to compile them yourselves. They come either as a platform native install package, or as a tarball with an install.sh install script. ActivePerl also includes the Perl Package Manager that allows you to install additional modules (and all their prerequisites) from a repository, so you don't have to build them yourself. It also contains a full set of HTML documentation for Perl and all included modules. In the end it is probably a question of convenience. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
