EigenFunctions has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

ActiveState is becoming less and less useful over time as access to old or new packages are restricted. I just got a new laptop and so I decided to load Strawberry Perl instead.

Every review I read said they are about the same. As best as I can tell, that is not at all true. I have been using Perl for well over 10 years and I love it. For me, the best aspect of Perl are the vast number of packages available and the easy way to find them and install them. That is the major difference in ActiveState and Strawberry Perl. PPM is a good (not great) GUI, while CPAN Client is a throw back from the 60's (and yes, I was there in the 60's!).

As I try to run programs already written under ActiveState, I'm finding more and more packages don't exists for Strawberry Perl.

One example package is Win32::AdminMisc. Does anyone know where I can find a version for Strawberry Perl?



OK, OK, frustration got the better of me back then and I was new to Strawberry Perl. The CPAN repository is a good thing.



Thanks,

EigenFunctions

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Re: Can't find packages for Strawberry Perl (e.g., Win32::AdminMisc, etc)
by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Oct 28, 2013 at 18:41 UTC
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Re: Can't find packages for Strawberry Perl (e.g., Win32::AdminMisc, etc)
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Oct 28, 2013 at 19:55 UTC

    CPAN Client is a throw back from the 60's (and yes, I was there in the 60's!).

    Really? I did not remember Perl and CPAN existed so early. and also not in the 70's. And not even the late 80's as far as CPAN is concerned. ;-)

    Back to more serious stuff, I am using Perl mostly on Unix and Linux platforms, but, for various reasons, I have also installed both ActiveState and Strawberry on Windows boxes, including the laptop on which I am just writing right now, I really think Strawberry is not only superior (in terms of modules and otherwise), but is more and more so with time. Just my 2 cents.

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Re: Can't find packages for Strawberry Perl (e.g., Win32::AdminMisc, etc)
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2013 at 01:24 UTC
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      When I try to install from CPAN, I get: 

      Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Win32::AdminMisc'.
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determi
+ne prerequisites
Failed during this command:
 DAVEROTH/Win32_AdminMisc_Source_980511.zip   : writemakefile NO -- Pa
+ckage contains several files[adminbuild.h adminmisc.cpp ADMINMISC.DEF
+ ADMINMISC.H ADMINMISC.PM ADMINMISC.RC DNS.CPP DNS.H README resource.
+h TEST.PL] but no Makefile.PL or Build.PL; not recognized as a perl p
+ackage, giving up

      [download]

      I tried to go to the Dave Roth website, but the links to the *.pm files are dead.

      Can anyone help?

      Thanks,

      EigenFunctions

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