Eric Wilhelm wrote:
With a VM install, you still have to wade through the boggy experience
of mousing-around in a completely foreign environment while swearing at
the shell for being completely unreasonable about everything.
I know that Norton Commander clones generally are not used anywhere outside the former Soviet Union, but you may take a
look at Far Commander ( http://www.farmanager.com/download.php?l=en ) and install MSYS and MinGW (and optionally: 1.
install ActivePerl, 2. Install StrawberryPerl).
After that, you should have something close to your working environment, and
more (thanks to Far Cmdr).
It seems like you could construct a pretty thoroughly windowsish
environment by hiding all useful commands (e.g. rename /bin,/usr/bin)
and unsetting $PATH, then make some working/temp directories with
spaces in the names. That would catch most of the common problems.
Not sure if you could emulate the brokenness of the backslashes on a
*nix though.
Perl on Windows doesn't have any problems with straight slashes. Unless you do
my $bla = `/bin/sh`;
Something like "open (my $FILE, '<', '/Windows/TEMP/File.txt')" works just fine, though I would recommend using
File::Spec->cat just to be sure.
P.S. Programming in Perl on the Windows as primary platform for more than 10
years.
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Serguei Trouchelle
