SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix

[John Cokos]

True enough, but, in the true Microshaft tradition, Activestate
is now bundling some utilities free that are putting hard working
3rd party guys (like perl2exe) out of business.

Activestate should stick to windoze perl, period.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <B.Ingerson at epixtech.com>
To: "John Cokos" <jcokos at ccs.net>
Cc: "Sanford Morton" <smorton at pobox.com>; <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix


> 
> 
> 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
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> John Cokos <jcokos at ccs.net>@pm.org on 08/01/2000 07:00:18 PM
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> Sent by:  owner-spug-list at pm.org
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> To:   Sanford Morton <smorton at pobox.com>, <spug-list at pm.org>
> cc:
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> Subject:  Re: SPUG: activestate's ActivePerl on Unix
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> 
> <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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