I'm happy to announce the release of ActivePerl 5.8.8.820.
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl
Major changes in build 820 are:
* Improved support for Unicode filenames on Windows
Many Perl internals will try to use the short 8.3 filename whenever
the long filename cannot be represented in the system codepage.
This makes it now possible to work with these files from Perl.
Support has been added to the glob() and readdir() functions, the
Cwd.pm module, the $^X and [at] INC variables and various other places.
The Win32::GetLongPathName() will return the long name, as usual,
but may now return a full Unicode name instead of using replacement
characters.
* New features and bug fixes for PPM4
Problems in both the command-line and the GUI interface of the new
Perl Package Manager have been fixed, and some new functionality
has been added as well.
Check out the changelog for the details:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.8/changes -58.html
As usual, please send us feedback regarding ActivePerl to
mailto:ActivePerl-feedback [at] ActiveState.com
and report any bugs or enhancement requests at
http://bugs.ActiveState.com
Other major changes in the last few previous releases include:
* Rewritten Perl Package Manager (PPM4)
PPM4 now features a GUI client in addition to the command-line
interface. This is a free replacement for the Visual Package
Manager component of the ActiveState Komodo Professional and Perl
Dev Kit products.
PPM4 has been redesigned to allow updating of all modules in an
ActivePerl installation, including core modules and modules used by
PPM4 itself (once the repositories include these updated core
modules).
* Support for the Tcl, Tcl::Tk and Tkx modules
The Tcl.pm module provides access to the latest versions of the Tcl
interpreter and Tk module. This gives you better performance,
better Unicode support, and a much larger set of native widgets,
including themed widgets on Windows and Aqua widgets on OS X.
Check out PPM4 or the applications in the ActiveState Perl Dev Kit
for the look and feel of cross-platform GUI applications using these
modules!
* 64 bit releases for Linux, Solaris and Windows
* Support for the MinGW GCC compiler on Windows
You can build your own Perl extensions containing XS code with GCC
if you don't own a copy of the Microsoft VC++ compiler. No
configuration is necessary, just add the MinGW bin directory to the
PATH.
Cheers,
-Jan
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