I hate when I do that. :( This email contains my actual comments (see below).
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com> wrote: > > From: Paul Johnson > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:11:57PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > OK. For Windows there is now http://dwimperl.com/ which is open-source > > and is > > > considered better than Activestate Perl. > > > > [citation needed] > > I don't know about DWIMPerl itself, but it claims to be based on > Strawberry, which I do use. The biggest advantage Strawberry has over > ActiveState is the direct use of CPAN and all available modules there. It > is not limited to the adulterated and incomplete collection provided by > ActiveState. > > Bob McConnell > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > Not to drift too far[further] off-topic here, but I completely agree on Strawberry Perl itself -- I have finally made the jump from Activestate and am happy with it for all of the reasons Paul states (not to mention that it includes a compatible-by-definition C compiler for building packages that require it. I confess I had not heard of dwimperl before. I am trying to stay open-minded about it, but from what I see on its webpage it has a major focus on Having "The" Packages You "Must" Have (especially given its inclusion of Task::Kensho, which goes even further in that direction). Granted many of them are powerful and desirable, but the direction with respect to Strawberry Perl seems to be toward less flexibility rather than more.
