I tried looking the topic of development up on the site, but the articles were dated 2000 and some of the links didn't work anymore...

Anyway, my question is more of discovering other users' preferences on development. How does one develop a Perl/CGI application for a remote Unix-based server when your home box is just some flavor of Windows? While I realize that there is Apache for Windows, I'm just wondering if there's any other way of developing. I mean, most of the time, the remote machine will have things like SQL or what have you that I wouldn't want going on my home machine.

What I usually end up doing is just making a script on the live server, and keep coding and refreshing and coding and refreshing. Seems kind of... Hackish and not so elegant.

That and what IDE do you use? I'm trying to focus primarily on the free ones, and one that I've found that's definitely free is located here at http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/

My only gripe about it is that its variable watching requires some effort. And I hate effort. Which is why I learned Perl. =)

Thank you for your time and wisdom.

In reply to Perl/CGI Development on Win32 in 2004 by deep submerge

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