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in thread Nooo!... Have I trashed my Strawberry?

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.

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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
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