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From: darkon on 3 Mar 2010 12:18
Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> wrote:

> I wouldn't recommend AS Perl for Mac OS (or Win32 nowadays,
> for that matter).

Why is that? I've been using AS on Win32 for about 10 years now. Is
Strawberry Perl now the recommended package for Windows?

(Kind of a moot point for me, at least at work: Activestate Perl is
the only one we're currently allowed to use.)
From: Ben Morrow on 3 Mar 2010 17:33

Quoth darkon <darkon.tdo(a)gmail.com>:
> Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't recommend AS Perl for Mac OS (or Win32 nowadays,
> > for that matter).
>
> Why is that? I've been using AS on Win32 for about 10 years now. Is
> Strawberry Perl now the recommended package for Windows?

Recommended by whom?

I've had unfortunate experiences with AS perl in the past, both with
extensions I needed not being available and with changes they've made to
core perl (in particular, their ActivePerl::Config stuff is just
*nasty*). Strawberry is just perl as on any other platform, with a
fairly usual level of minimal patching to make things work, most of
which gets pushed back upstream reasonably quickly.

But if AS works for you, that's fine.

Ben

From: John Bokma on 3 Mar 2010 18:16
Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> writes:

> Quoth darkon <darkon.tdo(a)gmail.com>:
>> Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > I wouldn't recommend AS Perl for Mac OS (or Win32 nowadays,
>> > for that matter).
>>
>> Why is that? I've been using AS on Win32 for about 10 years now. Is
>> Strawberry Perl now the recommended package for Windows?
>
> Recommended by whom?
>
> I've had unfortunate experiences with AS perl in the past, both with
> extensions I needed not being available and with changes they've made to
> core perl (in particular, their ActivePerl::Config stuff is just
> *nasty*). Strawberry is just perl as on any other platform, with a
> fairly usual level of minimal patching to make things work, most of
> which gets pushed back upstream reasonably quickly.
>
> But if AS works for you, that's fine.

I had somewhat the same question: what do you recommend over AS, and my
guess was correct (Strawberry Perl), so thanks for the clarification.

--
John Bokma j3b

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From: darkon on 5 Mar 2010 09:58
Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> wrote:

>
> Quoth darkon <darkon.tdo(a)gmail.com>:
>> Ben Morrow <ben(a)morrow.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > I wouldn't recommend AS Perl for Mac OS (or Win32 nowadays,
>> > for that matter).
>>
>> Why is that? I've been using AS on Win32 for about 10 years now.
>> Is Strawberry Perl now the recommended package for Windows?
>
> Recommended by whom?
>
> I've had unfortunate experiences with AS perl in the past, both
> with extensions I needed not being available and with changes
> they've made to core perl (in particular, their ActivePerl::Config
> stuff is just *nasty*). Strawberry is just perl as on any other
> platform, with a fairly usual level of minimal patching to make
> things work, most of which gets pushed back upstream reasonably
> quickly.

Ah. I was just curious.

> But if AS works for you, that's fine.

Yeah, AS works fine for me, but I mostly use it for quick data-
munging programs. My programs are seldom more than a couple hundred
lines, if that long. That's including whitespace, and I'm fairly
liberal with it.
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