Application: Perl Portable
Category: Development
Description: Perl Portable provides a portable installation of the open source Strawberry Perl distribution, including optional support of its ability to compile CPAN modules.
Download Perl Portable 5.10.1.0 Development Test 1 [21.6MB download / 131MB installed]
(MD5: b2def215471ff2ac59a023ef0d8fda75)
(SHA1: e90ddce8513cfb27fba2e3c37daf37b1c92ae325)
Release Notes:
Development Test 1 (2010-03-14): Initial release (Yes, I know it's using a test icon, as I'm not gonna mess w/ that until I get a hi-res icon and the allowance to use it from TPF.) (Any other icon suggestions would be extremely welcome! :P)
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Thanks for doing this, and a few questions.
1 - How does this version (dev test 1) differ from the test versions previously released in this forum?
2 - I noticed that Strawberry Perl already comes with a portable version, strawberry-perl-5.10.1.1-portable.zip at http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html, which is 40MB vs. 29MB of yours. Do you know what makes for such a large difference? Have you had a chance to test the Strawberry portable version?
3 - What are known Perl/CPAN issues in your test version, if any?
Thanks again
To answer 1 and 2) It's formatted in proper PortableApps.com format, up to current standards. It's also the current Perl version. This Perl Portable is based off of Strawberry Perl Portable, but is, like I said, put into a nice, shiny portableapps.com format!
3) Whatever issues Strawberry Perl has. Biggest issue is that it's on Windows, so some random stuff doesn't work properly.
Thanks for checking this out, hope it works well!
Use the search box! Please!
The size difference is probably due to PortableApps using LZMA rather than ZIP.
There's a pretty massive difference in compression quality between the two.
Since strawberry perl is the base for this portableapp:
Announcement: Strawberry Perl July 2010 Beta 1
5.12.1 is now available, including a "USB-portable" version of it. 5.8.9, and 5.10.1's portable version, have been dropped.
http://strawberryperl.com/beta/
http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.12.1.0/strawberry-perl-5.12.1.0-por...
Thanks for the update!
Not quite sure if it would be in Perl Portable's best interests to update to 5.12 though, as most of the Perl world is still hovering on 5.10.
Use the search box! Please!
(Note: I'm the creator of Strawberry Perl)
There's some patching that went into the Perl 5.12 core specifically to improve portable (specifically, there were some path bugs relating to the vendor directories).
Upgrading to 5.12 is probably a good idea.
Also, please get in touch with us in irc.perl.org #win32.
We'd love to integrate your work directly into the Strawberry build system so that the portable installer is automatically built as a PortableApps installer out the box.
technically, 5.8 still exists . . . . Latest is always the best option, but I'm sure that everyone will still stick with 5.10 for way to long. This is the way it goes with businesses
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