Hello Fellow Monks!
I recently digged in the Tutorials section. There i stumbled upon this: Installing Perl on a Windows PC
since it may be a little outdated and there is no mention of strawberry perl which i personally found very useful on win32 (I must admit that i never used Active State Perl cause the book i used recommended strawberry perl ...).
I wondered if i should write a Tutorial for installing strawberry Perl on Windows?
(Ok it is no big deal, asking myself if this is worth a tutorial at all, cause it is straightforward but i think new Win32 Perl programmers should have the information and the choice ...)
Maybe useful links?:
http://win32.perl.org
http://strawberryperl.com
What do you think?
Update:It is not possible to update the original thread cause the user doesnt seem to be around anymore or we dont want to alter his node?
Thanks
MH

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Re: RFC: Tutorials Installing Perl on Windows Strawberry Perl
by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 29, 2009 at 15:12 UTC

    Given that Strawberry Perl has a nice GUI installer and limited options (well one, accept the licence agreement or don't install) I'm not sure what exactly your proposed tutorial would cover.

    Perhaps a general tutorial for installing Perl would suffice, linking to the perl.org Download Perl page, which provides links for ActiveState and Strawberry Perl distributions, as well as the source. I think this sort of thing along with some general installation do's and don'ts, cpan configuration hints and tips, installing via the package management system of choice (apt etc..) and perhaps some hints and tips for rolling your own from source should suffice.

    Martin

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      Yes. Exactly something like that, first CPAN config, (esp. at the company behind the firewall, cost my half a day ...)

      Thanks MH
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