[oak perl] Help with Perl on Windows

[Kester Allen]

> I don't have any experience with the perl dev kit. I've got a Personal
> license for the Komodo IDE which I like quite a bit. The remote
> graphical debugger paid for the (then-)$30 license the first time I
> needed it.
> 
> I don't do much with the regex debugger in Komodo. :( I should. :)

If you're interested in a visual debugger (not an IDE, just a runtime,
Tk-based visual debugger), I've had great success with ptkdb, which
can be installed like so:

C:\Documents and Settings\allen>ppm3 install Devel::ptkdb
====================
Install 'Devel-ptkdb' version 1.1087 in ActivePerl 5.8.4.810.
====================
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Devel\ptkdb.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Devel\ptkdb.pm
Successfully installed Devel-ptkdb version 1.1087 in ActivePerl 5.8.4.810.

on a windows box with Activestate (it's also available from CPAN, of
course-- it's pure Perl I believe, so it'll run anywhere)

--Kester