Haven't yet tried it - and probably won't until it gives me a choice of install locations. I would also like to see an option to not have the path altered in any way. I have some questions (which don't really belong in this thread ... but I'll ask them anyway :-)

I already have MinGW and dmake. Will installing Strawberry Perl have any impact on those existing MinGW and dmake installations ? (The option I'd prefer is to install Strawberry Perl, but not MinGW and dmake - and have Strawberry Perl use those pre-existing MinGW and dmake installations.)

Does Strawberry perl come with a ppm utility ? There are times when that can be damned handy. For example, if you want to install a module (such as GD) that needs a C library, you first have to build (or otherwise acquire) the requisite C library - or you can just 'ppm install' the module and save yourself the hassle of chasing up the C library. There's a lot of ppm's out there and it would be good if Strawberry Perl at least provided us with the option of grabbing them.

I see that GNU make is part of the Strawberry distro. Why is it provided ? (No big deal about this ... I'm merely curious.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: Are you using Vanilla/Strawberry Perl? Tell me about it! by syphilis
in thread Are you using Vanilla/Strawberry Perl? Tell me about it! by xdg

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