Hello fionbarr,

As I pointed out previously, you don’t have to take any chances. Just download the Strawberry Perl PortableZIP edition appropriate to your OS (i.e., 32- or 64-bit) and unzip it to a suitable directory. Then, to run this new version of Perl, double click on the file portableshell.bat. Enter perl -v from the command line to verify that the Perl you are using is the one from Strawberry Perl. Install any modules you need locally (i.e. for this version only) by running cpanm from this command line.

You can then test your existing scripts on the new Strawberry Perl version. If they don’t work, and you can’t get them to work (for whatever reason), you have lost nothing but a bit of time — your existing ActivePerl is still installed and will still work the same as it always did.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: replacing ActivePerl with Strawberry Perl by Athanasius
in thread replacing ActivePerl with Strawberry Perl by fionbarr

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