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Re: 'moving' an activeperl install to a new machine (xp to windows 7)

From: Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com>
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:48:44 -0700
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Greg VisionInfosoft
<gai...@visioninfosoft.com> wrote:
> hi all, ive got a wonderfully working activeperl 5.8.9 environment> that was originall setup on Windows XP.>> so that i dont need to reinstall the many, many packages that ive> ammased throughout the years - i had the thought to simply copy my> entire 'perl' folder from the older windows xp pc to my newer windows> 7 pc.>> certainly this will move perl and all packages just fine...

I think this should work fine as long as you preserve the original
install location, i.e. if it was installed into C:\Perl, then put it
into C:\Perl on the new machine as well.

> the problem with this, is i dont know how to preserve the built-in PPM> database functionality.

I don't think you need to.  PPM should recreate everything for you
automatically when you invoke it again.

Note thought that PPM has changed a bit since the days of Perl 5.8, so
things may be different, but it can't hurt to just try it.

On the other hand, maybe this is a good opportunity to move to a newer
version of Perl?

Cheers,
-Jan
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