Re: Nooo!... Have I trashed my Strawberry?

If nothing else gets accomplished by this posting, maybe someone who is about to do what did will read it and be warned to NOT DO THAT.

My recommendation to anyone installing Strawberry Perl is to select the MSI version in preference to the "zips" ONLY if you have a clearly understood reason for doing so.
Otherwise install the "Portable zip" or (if you have an interest in PDL) the larger "PDL zip".

I actually can't think of a good reason to install the MSI version - but I'm not (quite) so arrogant as to assume that such a "good reason" does not exist.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Nooo!... Have I trashed my Strawberry? by haj (Vicar) on Jun 10, 2025 at 10:36 UTC
An advantage of the MSI version is that it is on the %PATH% after installation, without any `portableshell.bat` invocation. I have several versions of portable Strawberry (including the awesome PDL-enabled distribution), but when I run other programs which start Perl it is good to have a fallback which is "always there". Concrete example: I often start Emacs before running any shell. In Emacs, I can read nicely rendered POD, but that needs `perl` and `pod2html` on the path.	[reply]
Re^3: Nooo!... Have I trashed my Strawberry? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 10, 2025 at 13:31 UTC
An advantage of the MSI version is that it is on the %PATH% after installation, without any portableshell.bat invocation. Fair enough - but if I wanted to have a Strawberry perl that was "on the %PATH% after installation", I would add a portable Strawberry Perl permanently to the path, and stay clear of the MSI. I really don't ever want to be encumbered with the MSI version(s) at all. Cheers, Rob	[reply]