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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:37:26 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: YAPP James <james DOT yapp AT transcomww DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.6.* package
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YAPP James schrieb:
> Thought I read there're problems with perl 5.8 on windows?
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WindowsInstallCookbook
> 
> Under the Scope section, it's printed in bold "_don't_ use Perl 5.8.0 yet"
> 
> Have you tried it? It would be great if it works. 

The last time I tried it it worked ok. They shouldn't give impossible 
advices.

perl UTF issues are solved for a long time now.
And I don't know of any outstanding CGI.pm bug. (summer 2003)

They do recommend:
cywin-1.3.9, Apache 1.3.27,  Cygwin perl-5.6.1-2

But I a have much better apache setup than they recommend.
For example they recommend also:

"You must use the Cygwin shell to do this (unless you are a Perl expert) 
- don't use the Windows command shell, cmd.exe (aka DOS Prompt). Change 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT to #!c:/cygwin/bin/perl -wT . Example script to do 
this (explanation):
     * $ perl -pi~ -e 's;#!/usr/bin/perl;#!c:/cygwin/bin/perl;' *[a-z]"

This for example is easily circumvented by using the
"ScriptInterpreterSource registry" directive in the twiki apache 
<Directory> section or by using the old cygwin apache.

Sorry, I won't give more advice.
I have pretty much to do on my own phpwiki, than fixing twiki and perl 
installation problems.
Any modern WAMP installer does a decent job with a typical apache/perl 
installation.

ask at the twiki mailinglists.

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Reini Urban [mailto:rurban AT x-ray DOT at]
>>Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 12:58 PM
>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: perl 5.6.* package
>>
>>
>>YAPP James schrieb:
>>>I need it to run Twiki on windows
>>
>>twiki will run better with the latest perl 5.8.5
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [mailto:sthoenna AT efn DOT org]
>>>>Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 12:25 PM
>>>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>>>Subject: Re: perl 5.6.* package
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:17:01PM +0200, YAPP James wrote:
>>>>>How/Where can I download an older version of the perl package?
>>>>
>>>>Why would you want to?  google for a perl-5.6.1-2.tar.bz2 from a
>>>>stale mirror?  (That's the latest one I have any record of, don't
>>>>know if there was a 5.6.1-3.)

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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