[CMI.PM] Perl installable for Win2K/XP?

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Ed Thomson <ethomson at ravecomm.com> wrote:
> Mitch Kutzko wrote:
>> Hi, folks -- Another question for you....
>>
>> I'm looking for a free version of Perl for Win2K/WinXP systems.
>> Something recent, stable, and compatable with CPAN, preferably.
>>
>> What recommendations does anyone have?  The last time I had to solve
>> this problem, I got lucky and someone had a licensed copy of the MKS
>> Utilities version of Perl, which is now *way* too old to be useful
>> in this context.
>
> I always install cygwin <http://www.cygwin.org/> on windows boxes.
> It helps ease the pain of... well, windows.  It includes a recent
> version of Perl.  I don't know how well it deals with CPAN, but I've
> never had any problems with it.

I strongly recommend against using cygwin on anything but personal,
single user systems.  The readme states that cygwin uses shared memory
spaces for data storage and there is the possibility that processes can
access memory of another application.

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