Strawberry Perl vs ActivePerl | MIDAS – Web-Based Room Scheduling | Blog
Summary
When we first evaluated the newcomer Strawberry Perl in 2008 against the more established ActivePerl, there were a number of clear differences, mainly from an ease of install and use perspective. However, around June 2010, Strawberry Perl suddenly removed a key component from their distribution which MIDAS relied on; the ability to natively work with and set Timezones. ActivePerl was in continual development, with regular updates and releases which reasonably closely tracked the latest versions of Perl which were available for Linux-based servers. Their focus seemed to have shifted more towards monetization and on their Python language products instead (as evident from the majority of their recent posts on Twitter) All these aspects and developments were a worrying trend for us, which is why last year we began equally promoting and recommending Strawberry Perl alongside ActivePerl on our server requirements page. If you must use ActivePerl, then we’d suggest getting your hands on 5.24, although this is now four years old, and we’re big advocates for keeping server software up to date, so going forward Strawberry Perl would be our preferred option.
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