da...@lang.hm disturbed my sleep to write: > I have a need to get perl on a windows build I am putting togeather. I > understand that the common thing to do is to use activeperl, but why is > that? Is this free? (searching for activeperl licensing takes me to a page > to ask for a price quote) > > Is there a better way to put perl on a bunch of windows servers? > > What do you folks who have to maintain windows systems do?
It's been a while since I've had to do this, but the main advantage for me was the ease of installation. I think they give you an MSI, which lets you push it easily to other machines if you need to. The other alternative for me was going with Cygwin; I love it, but its lack of proper package management always frustrated me. It may be different now, and you may find that the other things Cygwin comes with (bash, awk, Emacs, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, X11...) are good to have as well. HTH, Hugh -- Hugh Brown http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.
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