Is there any significant advantage, one way or the other, to using CygWin Perl vs ActiveState Perl on Windows boxen?

I've been tasked with developing a project that will run as a periodic cron job from a UNIX server but will also need to be kicked off manually from any of several Windows XP workstations. The code isn't going to be anything particularly difficult. Net::Telnet and Config::Tiny are about as non-vanilla as this is going to get although the Windows version will probably eventually have a Tcl/Tk front-end.

My problem is that I've never done any Perl work on a Microsoft platform and I don't know which Perl to use. I've done searches here on PM but the comparisons I've found between CygWin and ActiveState are all 2-3 years old. I was hoping for some opinions that were a little more current.

Jack

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