Many good questions.

I already have MinGW and dmake. Will installing Strawberry Perl have any impact on those existing MinGW and dmake installations ?

Sadly, yes, maybe. Again, it's path dependent. I suspect that you could install Strawberry, and delete "c:\strawberry-perl\mingw" and "c:\strawberry-perl\dmake" and those directories from your PATH and it would work OK. Long term -- optional installation of those is probably a good thing. It's more backlog for the installer work queue, I guess.

Does Strawberry perl come with a ppm utility?

No. Strawberry Perl only comes with Perl modules on CPAN. If ActiveState ever makes PPM non-proprietary, perhaps it could be considered. In the meantime, external libraries are a problem and various options are being explored. (cf. RFC: Portable Alien Library System)

I see that GNU make is part of the Strawberry distro. Why is it provided?

Some external libraries want it instead of dmake or nmake. Notably, Alien::wxWidgets uses it. Given the special name for it ("mingw32-make"), it's not likely to be invoked by accident.

-xdg

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