Re^4: Which is better: ActiveState or Strawberry Perl?

To all of the concerns, Active State is moving very fast towards business. Many of the important modules that you got initially are no longer available for free, Ex: DBD-MySQL Win32::GUI The stable versions like 5.10 do not provide many of these modules. You need a business edition and it costs $1000. Your very notion of Opensource is compromised.

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Re^5: Which is better: ActiveState or Strawberry Perl? by ww (Archbishop) on Aug 08, 2013 at 11:55 UTC
You appear to be mis-informed... having a problem with orthography or spreading FUD about ActiveState. C:\>perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, .... C:\>ppm search DBD-MySQL # Verbatim from preceding nod +e ... 1: DBD-mysql A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI) Version: 4.022 Released: 2012-08-30 Repo: ActiveState Package Repository 2: DBD-mysqlPP Pure Perl MySQL driver for the DBI Version: 0.07 Released: 2011-11-17 Repo: ActiveState Package Repository C:\>ppm search Win32::Gui 1: Win32-GUI Perl-Win32 Graphical User Interface Extension ... Repo: ActiveState Package Repository Link: http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.16/1602/A/AC/ACALPI +NI/Win32-GUI-0.0.558.ppmx CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-GUI-0.0.558/ [download] If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Which is better: ActiveState or Strawberry Perl?
by ww (Archbishop) on Aug 08, 2013 at 11:55 UTC

You appear to be mis-informed... having a problem with orthography or spreading FUD about ActiveState.

C:\>perl -v
This is perl 5, version 16, ....


C:\>ppm search DBD-MySQL                 # Verbatim from preceding nod
+e
...
1: DBD-mysql
   A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
   Version: 4.022
   Released: 2012-08-30
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

2: DBD-mysqlPP
   Pure Perl MySQL driver for the DBI
   Version: 0.07
   Released: 2011-11-17
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

C:\>ppm search Win32::Gui
1: Win32-GUI
   Perl-Win32 Graphical User Interface Extension
   ...
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository
   Link: http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.16/1602/A/AC/ACALPI
+NI/Win32-GUI-0.0.558.ppmx
   CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-GUI-0.0.558/
[download]

If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.

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