SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix

[B.Ingerson at epixtech.com]

Whoaaa! Hold on. Perl is built from the *same* source code tree for both
Windows and Unix. Activestate has played a huge role in making that happen.
Gurusamy Sarathy, the man in charge of getting Perl 5.6 out the door, works
for Activestate.

Just because ActiveState gets some of its money from the man, doesn't mean
that they're out to get you. Microsoft needs Perl to work well on Windows
to make it a valid server platform. If ActiveState can use their money to
help out Perl in general, we all benefit.

ActivePerl is just your good old regular perl, bundled with some off
ActiveState's excellent tools, like PPM, distributed in a binary form. Many
CPAN modules would not be available to Windows users (of which there are
many in SPUG-land) if ActiveState had not ported and made them easy to
install with PPM.

</myRant.com>, Brian





John Cokos <jcokos at ccs.net>@pm.org on 08/01/2000 07:00:18 PM

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To:   Sanford Morton <smorton at pobox.com>, <spug-list at pm.org>
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Subject:  Re: SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix



<OpinionatedRant>
   Microsoft's behind it ... I wouldn't trust it
   as far as I could throw it.
</OpinionatedRant>


J-


> From: Sanford Morton <smorton at pobox.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:09:47 -0700 (PDT)
> To: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix
>
> I just noticed that ActiveState is now offering a Unix version, eg,
>
> http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/docs/index.html
>
> Is this identical to the standard source or binaries or does it offer
> less/more functionality? I couldn't tell from browsing the doc's.
>
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