Hi Michael, On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:00:34 -0700 Michael Putch <mike.pu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > 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. Discussing Perl distributions is not off-topic to this mailing list (though it may be off-topic to the thread.). I like Strawberry Perl (and DWIM Perl) from the reasons given here as well - it just works, it is open source, it is community-maintained, and you can install more modules using CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS.pm/cpanm using open-source tools. > 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. Well, no one forces you to use these packages, and I appreciate the various binary components of these distributions to be available for you. I was able to build the latest XML::LibXML from CPAN on DWIM Perl out-of-the-box and have been using it ever since whenever I'm on Windows. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ What do you mean by “WDYM”? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
