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Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021 #326

Closed mjgardner closed 3 years ago

mjgardner commented 3 years ago

Article for #136, plus my author file and image

briandfoy commented 3 years ago

This is really good. I have a few comments:

We don't have to get everything in one go, but we'd really like to make this a definitive resource eventually. Well, all the reasonable approaches at least.

mjgardner commented 3 years ago
  • [ ] Note which versions people want. Even numbers, previous two version.

Done.

  • [ ] Have a gory details section about compiling by hand along side of perlbrew. Just a quick ./Configure -des -Dprefix... etc.

Done.

  • [ ] a quick example with perlbrew to install latest, some older version, and switching?

Done.

  • [ ] Include cygwin? At least mention that it's there.

Done.

  • [ ] chocolatey?

Done.

  • [ ] berrybrew?

Done.

  • [ ] Does VSTools still come with perl? It's probably not important. I think git-bash does too. Not that we should use any of those.

I don't know if either come with Perl. I've elected to not mention them; the Windows options are already confusing enough.

briandfoy commented 3 years ago

I'm merging this, and we may tweak it a bit before publishing it.