On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Leo Lapworth <l...@cuckoo.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 27 May 2011 10:26, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > >> On Friday 27 May 2011 09:35:32 Sayth Renshaw wrote: > >>> Which Perl Should I use ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl on Windows? 5.10 > or > >>> 5.12? > >> > >> Definitely Strawberry Perl: it is free-as-in-beer, open-source, > free-as-in- > >> speech, community-driven, > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHYPM6e55o shows the steps (although > > 5.12.3 is out so I must updated that). > > > >> and allows you to install stuff from CPAN without > >> having to resort to a lot of proprietary and costly software from > Microsoft. > > > > ActiveState claim to now includes all the build code automatically or > > via PPM (MiniGW / dmake) so you don't need to buy anything from > > Microsoft. You can use their PPM modules (already compiled) but the > > cpan install tool will also build from scratch. > > > >> You should make use of the latest version of perl 5 available for it - > namely > >> 5.12.x , as 5.10.x was recently end-of-lifed, and there's now > perl-5.14.x. > > > > At the moment I'd recommend Strawberry Perl Professional (from > > http://strawberryperl.com/beta/) even though it is 5.10 because it has > > lots of extra CPAN modules (the ones with tricky install issues) > > included, I've been told a Pro version for 5.12 is being worked on and > > should be available in a few weeks. > > > > 5.14 is being worked on for Strawberry - but my understanding is that > > won't have the 'Pro' version for quite a while (unless someone wants > > to volunteer to help). > > > > Cheers > > > > Leo > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > > > > > > Thanks for the tip especially about strawberry professional, I had > been watching Padre fail too install for the past hour or so on 5.12 > and its installed and working by default now. > > Sayth > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > Hi I recommend the book, Beginning Perl, by Simon Cozens I'm a total newbie to programming and am finding it clear and instructional It really does " This is feature X - this is an impractical (or not) example of using feature X." Jon
