The part I miss most is libexpat, so I cannot install any XML stuff.

These are the sorts of reasons that support the inclusion of PPM in Strawberry Perl. The expat library is certainly buildable on Windows (and xdg has provided some links on that), but not everyone wants to go to that much trouble - and PPM caters beautifully to those that *don't* enjoy going to that much trouble. PPM also makes available the openssl-based modules without having to build openssl. And, if Tk, is posing a problem - then just ppm install it. (I don't think I'd like to see Tk ship as standard with Strawberry Perl - that really would be bloat.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: Disappointed with latest Strawberry Perl by syphilis
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