SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix

[Colin Meyer]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 06:09:47PM -0700, Sanford Morton wrote:
> 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.

One thing that I noticed is that it includes ppm, activestate's perl package
manager.  I have only used ppm a little, but it seems to provide rpm style
packaging for cpan's .tar.gz files.  

-C.


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