RE: What does Strawberry Perl change in Windows?

On Sun, 22 May 2011, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> 
> I also noticed there are two environment variables:
> 
> PERL_JSON_BACKEND = JSON::XS
> PERL_YAML_BACKEND = YAML
> 
> but I am not sure if they were set by Strawberry or something else?
> What are they needed for?
> 
> Are the other changes?

Not sure if this still happens in current versions, but Strawberry Perl
used to add the following environment variables as well:

TERM = dumb
FTP_PASSIVE = 1

At least FTP_PASSIVE shouldn't be necessary anymore, as it has been the
default for Net::FTP since libnet 1.21.

The TERM setting is necessary for Term::ReadLine::Perl IIRC.

Cheers,
-Jan