While I do like cygwin in general, I don't like to use it's perl for any heavy lifting. File name translations and dependence on the cygwin environment make it's value outside the cygwin shell limited.

For General use I find Strawberry perl very useful & use it at home.

At work, I have a subscription to Activestate's PDK, giving me access to the Perltray tool. Also Activestate Perl comes with ISAPI bindings in case you need to play nice with an IIS server.

TJD

In reply to Re: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl? by Anonymous Monk

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