X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:04:45 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Michael Kairys wrote: > I've been using ActiveState Perl and Cygwin together for years and > have only one complaint: Setup keeps hassling me about dependencies > and I have to make sure always to uncheck Perl in the setu list (and > again in the dependency check) or I end up with two Perl > installations, which I don't want. > > I wish Setup could recognize that I already have a Perl installation... Would you similarly complain that you already have del and dir and not want rm and ls? Personally I dislike ActiveState Perl. Things like setsid just don't work and signal handling is not reliable (that may be better). Plus things written for ActiveState sometimes don't port easily to Linux/Unix. This is not the case with Cygwin's Perl. -- Andrew DeFaria What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/