in fact the perl site recommends people use the active stat perl distribution. For python go with the oficial installer. Marlon 2007/11/2, Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi james, > Which language? If Perl, go with Active State. IT has a marvelously easy > to use package manager ppm, on the command line, POD docs converted to > HTML and many WIndows modules preinstalled. It is the defacto standard > perl distro for Windows, I'd say. > > ActiveState is not so critical for Python, I've heard. And as far as > Ruby goes, I'm personally using the one click Ruby installer. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: > http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila > > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I don't know enough to make a choice between getting the language > > distributions from ActiveState or the developer sites. What do I need to > > consider? > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > -- When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." Linus Torvalds __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind