[Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

[Matt S Trout]

Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote:
>> Don't do that. Bad things will happen. Always compiled your modules with
>> the same compiler used for the perl install itself on Windows. To that
>> point, you could compile perl in .NET, then do the modules that way too.
> 
> FUD.
> 
> VS.NET 2003 compiles everything that's compilable successfully for AS Perl.
> That's what I've been using for at least two years without any problems.
> 
> As GCC also does compile everything successfully for AS Perl. In fact,
> I don't even know if AS Perl is still compiled using the VC6.

I think that's the point - that AS has switched to gcc and it's *generally* 
preferable to use the same compiler as your perl binary was built with.

But I'm still on 5.8.7 until they get a 5.8.8 that doesn't randomly spew 
warnings everywhere.

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