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It was nice in that it included a large number of modules in the distribution.

If you want to find out about Win32 distributions of Perl, perhaps you should look at http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html#win32, which has long included SiePerl.

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Re^2: [OT?] A strange finding: Sieperl
by blazar (Canon) on Aug 07, 2008 at 09:35 UTC

    I personally believe that not only my impatience is growing better, but my hubris as well! (Which makes me hope I'll become a good programmer shortly!) In fact, there are quite a few of them which I had never ever heard of, either.

    OTOH I notice that the list is missing nothing less than vanilla and strawberry!! (Which is the only reason why I'm replying rather than /msg'ing you - perhaps someone would want to update it...)

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      I could see some arguing that vanilla/strawberry are not binary distributions of perl (being binary distributions of a C compiler environment bundled with Perl source code), but I agree that it only makes sense to mention and link to them from that page, even if a disclaimer is required to quell pedant objections.

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        I could see some arguing that vanilla/strawberry are not binary distributions of perl

        I personally believe that adamk should have the last word on it and at indeed Strawberry's own description at CPAN says:

        Strawberry Perl is a binary distribution of Perl for the Windows operating system. It includes a bundled compiler and pre-installed modules that offer the ability to install XS CPAN modules directly from CPAN.

        (with additional emphasis added by me.)

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