i guess its finally time for me to upgrade my perl (i need a module that doesnt work with my currently installed version of perl), but given that ive invested hours and hours to get my current perl environment to work and have lots of production programs i dont presently have time to immediately retest with a new version of perl, i was hoping i could have side-by-side perl installations on my win32 Windows XP computer.
i understand that i can rename my existing 'perl' folder to 'perl58' i understand that i can do a new install of perl 5.12 (assumming such an installer is still available) to a folder called 'perl512' i understand that i can open a cmd window and set path = %path%;c:\perl### to allow me to work with a given version at any given time. but what i dont understand is the following: 1. will the respective activestate PPM's (perl5.8 vs perl5.12) operate totally independantly of one another? i thought i read at perlmonk's somewhere that the local repo database are not actually stored as a sub of the 'perl' directory, but are instead stored in the 'user profile' section of the computer (meaning that unless PPM was explicitly written to store config info for different perl versions, there would otherwise be a possibliity of confusion here). 2. as well, is there a single important registry key that tells 'other applications' about where perl is installed to - and if so, what would that key be - so that i could also manipulate that if i also need to. thanks, greg
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