I have my Activestate Perl installed in
c:\data, which is on my Windows machine the place where we can install applications without having admin rights. However, a part of the install script wants to make some changes to the registry and that fails if you have no admin rights. I figured out it has to do with the path (so
perl your_script.pl just works) and with associating the
.pl extension with the perl interpreter. You can easily do these things by hand.
CountZero
A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James