ActivePerl 5.8.8.816 Released

The new ActivePerl release brings the popular Windows distribution of Perl to parity with the 5.8.8 source release

CGIDir
Thursday, March 16, 2006; 02:42 AM

ActiveState released a new version of its Perl distribution. The new version of ActivePerl comes after last month's announcement by the Perl 5 development team that the eighth maintenance release of Perl 5.8 is out.

According to ActiveState's website, ActivePerl is a "quality-assured, ready-to-install distribution of Perl, available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. The standard ActivePerl distribution is available for free download." ActivePerl contains: core Perl; the Perl Package Manager (PPM) for installing CPAN packages; PerlEx, the Perl performance plug-in for IIS; popular modules; and complete online help.

ActivePerl is maintained on two tracks to support users who have moved to Perl 5.8 as well as those still using Perl 5.6. Mac OS X support is currently available for the Perl 5.8 track.

About Active State

ActiveState is a leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. The key features of dynamic languages: high-level, dynamically typed and open source, make them ideally suited to building loosely-coupled systems that adapt to changing requirements. ActiveState's products and services range from language distributions for general purpose scripting; to professional development, debugging and deployment tools.