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Strawberry & ActiveStateby kel (Sexton) |
on Apr 28, 2020 at 00:55 UTC ( [id://11116145]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
kel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Dearest monks,
Hopefully this is the place to ask, for which may be very neophyte type questions. I have lately been in Win7-64 and in the process of rearringing a large library was looking for a move command that did not clobber, and it seemed like perlmv (and its cousins) was pretty much what I needed. But my ActiveState Perl 5.15 (or so) did not have anything resembling it, and apparently they are not updating it, in favor of a newer paywall system. And would not compile correctly within it. And also, it was acting weird, occasionally parsing only around 20% or so of 100 files correctly on some renaming scripts. And not non-ascii related, as many of those choked files would parse fine on another drive/dir. I do not have that problem on my Linux system (5.28 IIRC) So I decided to install Strawberry, with its 5.30 version. I had installed Strawberry in the past, but was not happy with it when working with the DBI libraries. Now that is not an issue. SO far, I like it, and am loading up on Bundles. I like my perl versions to be as fully loaded as possible. I am using the 'notest' pragma to speed things up. I am assuming if the package is binary, and OS specific, then it just wont install. So.. my basic question: Is it possible to import the ActiveState Site directory into perlenv? Would the XS binaries require a special DLL (like Cygwin)? Also: Are there any good FAQs/tutorials/links that center on the changes to Perl over the past 15 years? My learning curve was pretty much stopped at 5.10 and I know I have ALOT to catch up on!!! (Like gmake!).
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