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As others have noted, if I could install to a different location I would be more than willing to install.

At this point I can't lose the the "known good" distro, activestate, that I have installed as I could lose development time.

If the installer was updated to the ability to change install location, if I could leave current perl in place and install this as a secondary, I would be more than willing to isntall and use!

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Re^2: Are you using Vanilla/Strawberry Perl? Tell me about it!
by xdg (Monsignor) on Oct 02, 2006 at 17:19 UTC
    At this point I can't lose the the "known good" distro, activestate, that I have installed

    To be very clear, Vanilla/Strawberry Perl do not install over the top of ActiveState. They install in their own, separate directories at the root of the "C" drive. The proper paths are added at the end of the PATH environment variable. Which Perl runs when you type "perl" at the command line will be based on the first perl.exe found in the path, which should continue to be ActiveState. Moreover, no file associations are changed.

    So, while I make no promises, I suspect that Strawberry Perl can live peacefully alongside ActiveState if you want to try it out. Just run it explicitly with the full path, like so:

    > \strawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl.exe -V

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    -xdg

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      Thanks for the clarification... will have to try it out!

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