Downloading the Perl Source Code
If you're looking to live on the cutting edge of Perl for Windows, you'll want to get the Perl source code instead of the binary version. Alternately, if you know something about C code, sometimes having the source around can help you figure out what's going on when your Perl scripts are not behaving the way you want them to. In either of these cases, you'll want to download the actual Perl source code as well as, or instead of, the ActiveState version of Perl.
Perl's source code is available at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/info/software.html. A number of versions are available to choose from. The latest stable version is always available as stable.tar.gz (as I write this, that's version 5.6.1). Alter natively, ...
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