I’ve not had any trouble with StrawberryPerl on my Windows OTRS installation. Running IIS6 and MSSQL2005 on W2K3
Nathan Campbell
Systems Administrator
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of Michiel Beijen
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 3:48 PM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] ActivePerl and Windows
Jeff,
Yes, OTRS 2.x is 'compatible' with ActivePerl 5.10 as that is 'just' a binary distribution of Perl 5.10.
The only reason (as far as I know) that ActivePerl is no longer part of the Windows installer but replaced with StrawberryPerl is because of licensing issues. ActivePerl has a restrictive license and you can not include it into your product without an agreement with ActiveState, their distributors. You can, however, do a manual install with ActivePerl Perl and OTRS without running into licensing trouble. (but please note I'm not a lawyer)...
StrawberryPerl is a community built Perl and can be distributed under a less restrictive license.
Kind regards,
--
Michiel Beijen
Software Consultant
+31 6 - 457 42 418
Bee Free IT + http://beefreeit.nl
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 21:33, Jeff Travers