May I use Strawberry Perl and ActiveState Perl simultaneously on one computer?

Question

I used to delete my ActivePerl once, and all the installed modules were lost. So now I am very careful with this kind of issue. Due to some reason, I want to use Strawberry Perl now, while keeping ActiveState's ActivePerl in use.

Will this cause compatibility issues? Is it advisable?

Answer 1

This will not be a problem as both the Perl implementations will look at different directories for modules. That is, the @INC entries will be different.