Idiots' guide to setting up a perl environment for vss2svn?

[Toby Johnson]

Stephen Lee wrote:
> Paul Kirchner wrote:
>>
>> I'm a Perl novice, but here's what works for me on Windows XP:
>> 1. Install ActivePerl
>>
> ... and specifically if you have an x64 machine, ignore what looks 
> like it's a suitable version on the download page, and install the 
> regular x86 one.
>
> Apparently they decided to release the x64 distribution with no 
> modules available and "see what the customer demand would be for a PPM 
> repository before committing to do the work"
> http://support.activestate.com/forum-topic/ppm4-mswin32-x64-404-erro
>
> There is, unfortunately, no indication on the download page that the 
> x64 version is unusable.

Wow, that's kinda crappy. I can understand limited resources and wanting 
to test the waters first but they really should make that information 
more prominent. Glad you got it working...

toby