My understanding of this is that Vanilla Perl is meant to be a core Win32 perl distro. But I think Adam is grudgingly starting to realize that such a distro isn't actually that useful as a Win32 production tool so he wants a "Strawberry Perl" that contains extra modules like the extended Win32 modules (lib-win etal).

Personally I find this all a moderate touch amusing as I have long argued that Win32 perl is less than it should be because core perl just doesnt support enough of the Windows API to work around the fact that Windows doesnt behave like UNIX.

If strawberry perl is what is required to get enough of a consensus on this particular issue that we actually see some better Win32 API support in core then ill be happy.

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In reply to Re^2: [JOB] The Perl Foundation seeks Windows Developer by demerphq
in thread [JOB] The Perl Foundation seeks Windows Developer by adamk

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