Re: strawberry perl updates

Try perl -V (that’s an upper case V) and you should see something like this:

 1:30 >perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 32 subversion 1) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32
    osvers=10.0.19042.746
    archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.32.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 24 15:00:15 2021 
+x64'
    ...
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which shows exactly what’s installed.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum סתם עוד האקר של פרל,

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Re^2: strawberry perl updates by BernieC (Pilgrim) on Nov 29, 2022 at 16:22 UTC
Thanks very much!! I didn't know about "perl -V" {what a giant amount of information :o) } and indeed, `uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.32.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 24 15:00:15 2021 x64'` [download] I'm a bit dismayed that it sounds like Strawberry Perl may be going away. I used to use Activestate, years ago, but for some reason I decided I didn't like it so much {it's been so long that I forget what my issue was with it}. Is there a third alternative for windows Perl?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: strawberry perl updates by rwp (Initiate) on Nov 29, 2022 at 19:51 UTC
> what a giant amount of information In theory, you could also use `perl -V:uname` to derive just that string. But it didn't work for me though the other variables from `perl -V` do. Strange.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: strawberry perl updates by pryrt (Abbot) on Nov 29, 2022 at 20:15 UTC
> In theory, you could also use perl -V:uname to derive just that string. But it didn't work for me though the other variables from perl -V do. https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/source/Porting/Glossary#L5553: uname: This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs, the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful. https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/source/Porting/Glossary#L4456: myuname: The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname. The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are removed. There are a few of the other %Config / -V: entries that have the "my" versions, as listed in the glossary near `myuname` . And you can find others that have "is not useful" in their description, indicating that the `$Config{xxx}` or `-V:xxx` will not be useful. (edit: Though their "is not useful" assessment doesn't always match my experience: on Strawberry perl, 'make' stays with either `dmake` (for older versions) or `gmake` (for more recent strawberries), and is useful.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]