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What is the best version of ActivePerl to use with Windows Vista?

Posted by kevinw on 2007-01-15 19:24
OS: Windows Vista | Product: ActivePerl | tags: compatibility Perl vista windows
Question: 

What is the best version of ActivePerl to use with Windows Vista?

Answer: 

The best version of ActivePerl to use on Windows Vista is always the most recent build of ActivePerl 5.8.8 or 5.10.0.

ActivePerl 5.8.8.819 and later versions pass the same suite of tests on Windows Vista as they do on Windows XP and other supported versions of Windows.

ActivePerl's known issues on Windows Vista include:

  • PerlIS and PerlEx are installed but not automatically configured due to differences in the script extension mapping process for IIS
  • the OLE browser will not function with Internet Explorer 7

If you run into other issues, please report them at:

http://bugs.activestate.com

I found that some of the
San | Mon, 2008-08-18 04:07

I found that some of the modules i wanted to use didn't work well in 64bit so even if you are using 64bit windows I would still recommend using Perl x86 (32bit) for maximum compatability.

Don't bother paying for IIS, Apache works very well and it's free ;)