FW: [ ANNOUNCE ] - ActivePerl 5.6 Beta 1

[Steve Johnson]

Pardon the possible cross post, but this is good news.  Note the
availability of fork() in the Windows platform.  Cool.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-perl-win32-announce-15155 at lyris.ActiveState.com
> [mailto:bounce-perl-win32-announce-15155 at lyris.ActiveState.com]On Behalf
> Of Michael Smith
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 7:39 PM
> To: Perl-Win32-Announce Mailing List
> Subject: [ ANNOUNCE ] - ActivePerl 5.6 Beta 1
>
>
> Greetings All,
>
> ActiveState is pleased to announce the first beta of ActivePerl 5.6.
>
> ActivePerl, including PPM, now supports the following platforms:
>
> 	- Windows
> 	- Linux
> 	- Solaris
>
> This beta release includes all the major features that have been
> discussed for Perl 5.6.
>
> 	- Globalization and Unicode
> 	- Concurrent Interpreters
> 	- granularity of warnings
> 	- New regex construct
> 	- Lvalue subroutines
> 	- Subroutine attributes
> 	- 64-bit platforms
> 	- Large File Systems
>  	- Additional documentation and tutorials.
>
> The following additional new features are available on the Windows
> platform:
>
> 	- Unicode system calls
> 	- Windows Installer
> 	- CPAN extensions
> 	- fork()
>
> For further information see the release notes or readme file.
>
> ActiveState will also shortly make available beta versions of the
> upcoming new releases of the Perl Dev Kit and PerlEx, which will
> take advantage of the new features in ActivePerl 5.6.
>
> ActiveState cautions that the ActivePerl 5.6 beta release may contain
> certain incomplete features and known bugs. It is made available
> for testing purposes only.
>
> Download a copy of the ActivePerl Beta from:
>
> 	"http://www.ActiveState.com/cgibin/ActivePerl/download.pl"
>
> You can submit bug reports at:
>
> 	"http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl"
>
> You can send feedback on the new features to:
>
> 	"ActivePerl-Beta at ActiveState.com"
>
> Problems downloading the beta? Send mail to:
>
> 	"WebMaster at ActiveState.com"
>
> -- The Activators
>
>
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