I have found ActiveState to be the 'easiest' in most cases but when I want to do something fun or interesting I often find the module that I need is not available for the ActiveState distribution. Cygwin is fun, but CPAN is sometimes frustrating though it is sometime the only place to get a required module (CPAN is infact straight forward I just have not taken the time to get proficient with it). So ... I opted to do both (but it turned out to be not too complicated!). At first I wrote a begin block to modify the @INC array to direct perl to the ActiveState lib when required. Then I wrote a simple package that did the same thing (and returned a true value). Not quite the best of both worlds, but closer.
"Tyler Cruickshank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; Hi, I hope this question isnt too ridiculous. Ive been using perl for a year or so on various platforms (Sun/UNIX, linux, NT-cygwin, Active State). Do people recommend ActiveState over cygwin for the NT system - how about ActiveState on Linux? Not being a "system" guru Id like to use the simplist environment on which to add modules and run perl. Any thoughts? Thanks. -tyler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
