G'day pryrt,

"I am curious why you have both Cygwin and Strawberry."

I don't know what Intrepid's reasons are but I don't think that situation is particularly unusual. I have a diverse collection of Perls for home and $work use:

• Cygwin System Perl — only used for demonstation purposes as in this thread.
• Perlbrew Perls (currently nine versions) sitting on Cygwin — used directly for home/personal use.
• Strawberry Perls (several versions; couldn't be bothered to count them) — used for some specific $work projects.
• ActivePerl (no longer used but it's still floating around somewhere) — was used for a specific $work project.
• And I ssh from Perlbrew Perls Cygwin (typically via bash scripts)^{[Updated: 14/8/25]} to a variety of $work Linux systems with their own Perl versions.

You're quite correct in that these need to be managed. I recall that I used to have some issues. I sorted all of this out many years ago and I now have no problems with this many Perl versions.