[Pdx-pm] Perl Development on Windows

[darthsmily]

The problem with cygwin is that you must be carefull not to use any 
command that doesn't come windows.
Unless you have complete control over what gets installed with your program.
You don't wnat to drop to shell to run a command that doesn't exist!

as for editors, I would suggest windows edit.

I kid, I kid..please put the rocks down.


darthsmily

Eric Wilhelm wrote:

># The following was supposedly scribed by
># David Pool
># on Friday 24 December 2004 11:56 am:
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>>thankfully I haven't been on a
>>Windows box in many years. Can anyone offer suggestions on how to
>>make this as good as possible? They'll be pretty new to Perl.
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>In the three hours that I spent dealing with Perl on a Windows box, 
>the most frustrating thing is the braindead shell (which is 
>frustrating regardless of whether you're using perl or not.)  The ppm 
>install system is okay, as long as you only need modules that are in 
>the ActiveState repository (but it looks like there are a lot of 
>them.)  If you are trying to do anything with XS or Inline (compiled) 
>code, you need to have the Visual C/C++ compiler to be compatible 
>with the ActiveState build.  I think I saw something about the Visual 
>compiler being available for free now (though it's only the 
>command-line version, (so what's visual about it?))
>
>Given all of those issues, I don't think I'd try it without cygwin.  
>Then, you get the gnu tools, bash, cpan, tab-complete, etc.
>
>I know it's the smartass answer that everyone expects, but I think the 
>way to make it "as good as possible" is to ditch windows.
>
>I setup a Linux box (Debian) in the middle of a windows network, and 
>just let everyone that needs to run the code ssh or vnc into it.  For 
>about $800, you can get something that will do the job really well 
>and be able to remote-admin it (I only have to install/sync to one 
>box, and it supports several simultaneous users.) That works really 
>well, and keeps me from having to worry about windows-specific issues 
>in Perl (I haven't tried it enough to ever run into them, but the 
>reading always seems to imply that there are quite a few (e.g. 
>binmode(), fork(), etc.)  But, I guess the internals guys are bending 
>over backwards to make windows act like a real system, so maybe it's 
>not too bad.
>
>--Eric
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