On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Dan Huston wrote: > I noticed on CPAN that there are several Perl ports for Win32. Of > course I am aware of ActiveState, but have others had success with any > of the others? The main issue I keep running into is installing > modules from CPAN using the CPAN module and so I am looking for a > better alternative.
How about the one provided with Cygwin? That seems to be the best way to go if you want a reasonably sane Unix environment -- including a usable Perl -- running within Windows. I haven't really used the Cygwin version of Perl for interacting with Windows itself, but I imagine it should work fine. -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
