in reply to perl -MCPAN on windows: Should I even try?

You can use CPAN on Windows with ActiveState. But unless you have a compiler installed, you won't be able to compile any .xs files (I don't know off the top of my head if those packages have or depend on xs). You will need nmake. As for those other standard tools, I found unixutils to work great on my Windows laptop.

-xdg

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