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

In reply to Can't find packages for Strawberry Perl (e.g., Win32::AdminMisc, etc) by EigenFunctions

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