Strawberry Perl Guide

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Re: Strawberry Perl Guide by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2011 at 09:18 UTC
The differences between Strawberry Perl and ActiveState Perl are fairly minor, and (if at all) only concern module installation, as Strawberry Perl uses the "normal" way of CPAN (or App::cpanminus), while ActiveState Perl provides you with a nice clicky tool, prebuilt modules and commercial support. If you are starting out with Perl, it basically makes no difference which one of the two you use. If you feel that your book is far more geared towards ActiveState Perl, then by all means use ActiveState Perl. The "hardness" will not come from the Perl distribution you choose, but from learning programming.	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2011 at 09:31 UTC
Thanks Corion, exactly what I needed to hear, on with ActivePerl!	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2015 at 05:28 UTC
So you need to download and install both to get the manual... ridiculous	[reply]
Re^3: Strawberry Perl Guide by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2015 at 06:26 UTC
So you need to download and install both to get the manual... ridiculous yes, its ridiculous how you believe that for some reason ActiveState Product Documentation Perl programming documentation - perldoc.perl.org ...	[reply]
Re^4: Strawberry Perl Guide by SimonSaysCake (Beadle) on Apr 20, 2017 at 15:06 UTC
Re: Strawberry Perl Guide by bobinyec (Acolyte) on Aug 30, 2018 at 23:27 UTC
If Strawberry Perl is installed from their .exe file, how can we find out which modules are installed, like LWP, or HTTP?	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 31, 2018 at 00:00 UTC
If Strawberry Perl is installed from their .exe file, how can we find out which modules are installed The core modules (ie the modules that are installed by default in all builds of Windows perl) will be in the perl/lib folder, and all additional modules will be in perl/vendor/lib. There's also DISTRIBUTIONS.txt that lists all of the modules that were installed into perl/vendor/lib. Look for it in the top level perl folder. (I assume the executable file installs DISTRIBUTIONS.txt - though I always install Strawberry's "portable edition" that comes as a zip file, so I can't be sure.) Other than that, you can always check for the existence of a specific module by trying to load it. `C:\>perl -MSome::Module -e 1 Can't locate Some/Module.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Some: +:Module module) (@INC contains: C:/_64/strawberry-5.28.0/perl/site/li +b C:/_64/strawberry-5.28.0/perl/vendor/lib C:/_64/strawberry-5.28.0/p +erl/lib). BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. C:\>perl -MLWP::UserAgent -e 1 C:\>` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Strawberry Perl Guide by afoken (Chancellor) on Aug 31, 2018 at 14:55 UTC
If Strawberry Perl is installed from their .exe file, how can we find out which modules are installed, like LWP, or HTTP? As usual: `perldoc perllocal` Or, if you prefer HTML over the ugly console output, do this: `C:\Users\alex>perldoc -o html -d perllocal.html perllocal Perldoc (Pod::Simple::HTML) output saved to perllocal.html C:\Users\alex>start perllocal.html C:\Users\alex>` [download] Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]