I know exactly what you're talking about. I myself started out on ActiveState Perl. Like you, I really liked the web-based documentation and never really got into using the line-command perldoc utility.

If that's what's holding you back from making the switch from ActiveState to Strawberry, then here's a few alternatives that might help out.

First, I've gotten more familiar with using http://www.perl.org/docs.html for looking things up. That combined with CPAN, it is somewhat similar to ActiveState's web-based documentation system, but not as convenient.

Secondly, I recently found Pod::POM::Web. According to the Acknowledgements section of the documentation, the module was "deeply inspired" by "the structure of HTML Perl documentation released with ActivePerl". I'd recommend checking it out.

In reply to Re^3: How to Easily Check for Available CPAN Modules when Upgrading ActiveState Perl by dasgar
in thread How to Easily Check for Available CPAN Modules when Upgrading ActiveState Perl by ozboomer

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