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Win32 (Score:2)

by barbie (2653)

Let us not shun the Win32 programmer ...

I'd disagree that the installation is poor with ActivePerl, as you can run 'ppm' and 'cpan' pretty much from the off. Admittedly you are relying on a largely non-current repository away from CPAN, but it is a start. Having a reliable codebase from which you can install from is the key part. There are several of us who program on Windows and have to either patch CPAN modules ourselves, try alternatives or rewrite the code. I'd rather see more effort being put into
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  by Alias (5735) on 2005.11.20 7:50 (#44688) Homepage Journal
  
  It's the centrally run largely outdated non-CPAN repository that causes much of the problem. Instead of working out how to get a proper compiler working inside a default install of a Windows version of Perl, we have what is an enourmous workaround.
  
  Is PXPerl does nothing else but solve the nmake/compiler problem on Win32, it will be a huge success, and we can look at dealing with module-problems from there (and be able to actually test things outself).
  
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