in reply to Preferred Windows Perl?

I've used both, and both are fairly decent perl's.

It's easier, as a general rule, to build 3rd party modules for Cygwin, since it provides a fairly unix-y view of the system.

A few other things work better in Activestate, and AS also provides the ppm system, which lets you access binary versions of many modules.

For most uses, either one will do fine for you, I'd think.


Mike

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Re^2: Preferred Windows Perl?
by amarquis (Curate) on Aug 24, 2007 at 17:27 UTC

    This is a really good summary of the situation. Like RMGir said, for most uses either is fine. You won't get to a point where you say "Oh I wish I had used Y because it has X feature!"

    If the use is very casual, you just need to write a bit of Perl, I'd lean towards Activestate. Installation, integration, grabbing modules off of ppm, all of these tasks are very quick and painless.

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