Is it worth the admin hassle of having all the perls locally installed?
That depends on how you've set up things. I'm sure Windows will have equivalents for tools like Puppet, Cfengine and other management software. Assuming you have a tool like that, installing things locally isn't much of a hassle.

Of course, you should be able to install both perl32 and perl64 on the central server, and make it that 32-bit machines see the 32-bit perl, and 64-bit machines see the 64-bit perl.

But I would assume that this issue has already been solved in your organization. Surely, perl isn't the first piece of software you encounter that exists in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants? What have you done for other such software?

In reply to Re: Large Windows network: One 32 bit perl or 32 and 64 bit perls? by JavaFan
in thread Large Windows network: One 32 bit perl or 32 and 64 bit perls? by Boldra

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