Whats the history of ActivePerl on Windows?
At one time, Perl on the Win32 platform was found in two versions, Gurusamy Sarathy’s port, and the ActiveState port. The ActiveState port of Perl included such tools as Perl for ISAPI and PerlScript, at the expense of exposing Perl’s internals in a slightly different fashion than standard Perl. Sarathy’s port featured a high degree of compatibility with standard Perl, which enabled users of Sarathy’s port to use many modules that were not compatible with ActiveState Perl. The oneperl effort brought both ports of Perl together, and ActivePerl is the standard perl distribution for the Win32 system. All modules that can be used on Win32 can be used with this port. You no longer have to worry about whose perl the module is for. Just grab it, compile it (if needed), and use it.
