Re: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment

Have you looked at Cygwin? You install it on Windows and can optionally install perl and gcc. This gives you a working CPAN environment on Windows.

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Re^2: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by diabelek (Beadle) on May 12, 2008 at 17:08 UTC
We considered cygwin but it faces the same problems we have with perl. A. Architecture support - we haven't looked into it enough to know if the features we need work fine on ia64 platforms. IE, does Win32::OLE work in cygwin on ia64? B. How do you deploy cygwin in an automated fashion with no user intervention. We already almost have this working for perl (again windows is the long pole) C. We still need to automagically download and install perl modules. Granted this will be much easier since we're in a unix like environment.	[reply]

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We considered cygwin but it faces the same problems we have with perl.

A. Architecture support - we haven't looked into it enough to know if the features we need work fine on ia64 platforms. IE, does Win32::OLE work in cygwin on ia64?
B. How do you deploy cygwin in an automated fashion with no user intervention. We already almost have this working for perl (again windows is the long pole)
C. We still need to automagically download and install perl modules. Granted this will be much easier since we're in a unix like environment.