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From:
demerphq
Date:
March 14, 2023 18:31
Subject:
Re: Managing Perl installations
Message ID:
CANgJU+UnG7hkhB_mt1VhZ12kpo2NQQwKW-JPESwjtvRXfrs9tg@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 18:56, Oodler 577 via perl5-porters <
perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:

> * Ovid <curtis.poe@gmail.com> [2023-03-14 18:13:19 +0100]:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 5:51?PM Oodler 577 via perl5-porters <
> > perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> >
> > > For an interactive environment, this works great. I am not sure how
> this
> > > would work out in
> > > start up script or something else non-interactive, but I suspect bash
> > > would be quite happy
> > > taking an --rcfile in most situations.
> > >
> >
> > Is this just to show how others approach this? Having a core Perl
> solution
> > relying on bash seems problematic, especially given Windows. Is that an
> > option? I haven't done anything serious with Windows in two decades, so
> my
> > knowledge is seriously out-of-date.
>
> You snipped out the relevant part of the RT message. And who brought up
> Windows?
>

I thought we are trying to address the fact that Perl is perceived to be
suboptimal compared to other languages in terms of "per application"
installations.

That implies a cross platform solution, which implies it needs to work with
Windows as well.

Yves

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