On one hand I totally understand your frustration with both the relatively low level of perl support for Windows and with the negitve feelings you get from such responses.

On the other hand I know that both chromatic and petdance put a lot of energy in developing open source code especially for perl, testing and parrot. So I would not come to them with any complaint why don't they do more. Heck I should not do that to anyone who is giving up her free time to support some open source project.

I am not a Windows user myself but as my clients occasionally need stuff done on it I have one in a VMware installation and I constantly feel pain there. I am also teaching Perl and most of my clients are Windows users so I really would like to get better Perl support on Windows.

I think providing better support for Windows users will be a big boost to Perl so I would like to see more people helping the effort of adamk to improve Strawberry Perl, more people running smoke testing for CPAN modules on Windows and more people sending patches.

In reply to Re^6: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by szabgab
in thread Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by diabelek

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