cygwin or activestate ?

[Graham]

Which is better perl setup on w98se:

Full cygwin or activestate ? (or other)

In particular I will probably be installing DBI +DBD and using with
Oracle 9i Personal

Regards Graham

[sandor]

[email]lamontgra@yahoo.com[/email] (Graham) wrote in message news:<ed28012c.0308050704.6fd64ea4@posting.google. com>...

> Which is better perl setup on w98se:
>
> Full cygwin or activestate ? (or other)
>
> In particular I will probably be installing DBI +DBD and using with
> Oracle 9i Personal
>
> Regards Graham

You might want to check the DB module's documentation for
recommendations. If you use ActiveState you get a native version of
perl and that's it. If you use cygwin, you will probably want to
install almost all of their utilities and get things like tar, gzip,
cat, ls, etc. If you are used to using a UNIX command line, you will
appreciate cygwin's additional utilities. You can, of course, install
cygwin (without cygwin's own perl) and use ActiveState perl. Remember
that if you use cygwin's perl, you will be working with one leg in
UNIX and the other in Windows. Many modules won't care, but database
drivers might. I use cygwin and ActiveState's perl, but I don't use
Oracle.

[Andrew DeFaria]

sandor wrote:

>lamontgra@yahoo.com (Graham) wrote in message news:<ed28012c.0308050704.6fd64ea4@posting.google. com>...
>
>

>>Which is better perl setup on w98se:
>>

The first thing I'd install is Windows XP! :-)

>>
>>Full cygwin or activestate ? (or other)
>>
>>In particular I will probably be installing DBI +DBD and using with Oracle 9i Personal
>>
>>Regards Graham
>>
>>

>You might want to check the DB module's documentation for recommendations. If you use ActiveState you get a native version of perl and that's it. If you use cygwin, you will probably want to install almost all of their utilities and get things like tar, gzip, cat, ls, etc. If you are used to using a UNIX command line, you will appreciate cygwin's additional utilities. You can, of course, install cygwin (without cygwin's own perl) and use ActiveState perl. Remember that if you use cygwin's perl, you will be working with one leg in
>UNIX and the other in Windows. Many modules won't care, but database drivers might.
>

I use Cygwin with DBI and DBD::mysql. Works fine. There is a lack of a
mysql client on Cygwin however. I managed to build the mysql client
without building the mysql server under Cygwin.

> I use cygwin and ActiveState's perl, but I don't use Oracle.
>

Cygwin's Perl suports things like setsid and signal handling accurately
whereas ActiveState does not support setsid at all and signals sparsingly.
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