[Catalyst] Perl Flavors (was PPM vs CPAN)

[Matt S Trout]

Hugh Lampert wrote:
> Carl Franks wrote:
>> You may want to look into Vanilla / Strawberry perl as an alternative
>> to ActivePerl.
>> It includes the mingw (gcc) compiler and nmake, and the perl included
>> is compiled from scratch with mingw, rather than ms compilers.
>>
> Thanks, I will look into this for my next project.  I'm pretty married 
> to ActiveState right now because its the flavor that's approved for 
> production.  I need to minimize the height of the waves I cause because 
> I'm already on fairly thin ice for choosing Catalyst/Apache/Perl instead 
> of ASP/IIS/.NET for this project.  In other words my boss doesn't want 
> to see any more development tool requests, he just wants the app rolled 
> out already.

Once you've built the modules you should be able to simply copy the 
appropriate bits of the site lib onto any equivalent system - i.e. Ctrl-C, 
Ctrl-V deployment. I've done this on a number of occasions before when I 
didn't have a PPM handy.

> I still think I can bring the project home with the PPM's that are out 
> there, and whatever I can get to work from CPAN that doesn't require 
> complex compiling (unless this PAR thing works out).

Dev-C++ installs itself into its own directory and doesn't mess with your 
system settings. It *can't* do anything to your development environment.

Believe me on this - I have a somewhat complex windows dev setup (bits of 
Visual Studio, platform SDK, SFU/Interix, cygwin, Dev-C++) and they all play 
together quite happily. The only thing I haven't shoehorned onto here yet is 
.Net since I haven't needed it.

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