Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.1.5.2.20021216133349.00a63e30@casbah.it.northwestern.edu> X-Sender: dye053@casbah.it.northwestern.edu (Unverified) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:37:26 -0600 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Dmitry Epstein Subject: Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021215171114.02692180@casbah.it.northwestern.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:24 AM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote: >Why not use Cygwin perl? Cygwin comes with a perfectly nice perl 5.8, >which works at least as well as ActiveState's perl. You could even >associate Cygwin's perl with .pl files in Explorer, to completely replace >ActivePerl. > Igor ActivePerl has more pre-installed modules (I presume) plus a nice package manager. And better support too. Dmitry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/