On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Greg VisionInfosoft <gai...@visioninfosoft.com> wrote: > hi all, ive got a wonderfully working activeperl 5.8.9 environment > that was originall setup on Windows XP. > > so that i dont need to reinstall the many, many packages that ive > ammased throughout the years - i had the thought to simply copy my > entire 'perl' folder from the older windows xp pc to my newer windows > 7 pc. > > certainly this will move perl and all packages just fine...
I think this should work fine as long as you preserve the original install location, i.e. if it was installed into C:\Perl, then put it into C:\Perl on the new machine as well. > the problem with this, is i dont know how to preserve the built-in PPM > database functionality. I don't think you need to. PPM should recreate everything for you automatically when you invoke it again. Note thought that PPM has changed a bit since the days of Perl 5.8, so things may be different, but it can't hurt to just try it. On the other hand, maybe this is a good opportunity to move to a newer version of Perl? Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
