ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of Perl Dev Kit 8.0,
the essential tool suite for Perl developers that facilitates the
creation and deployment of professional Perl applications.
ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 8.0 adds cross-wrapping support to PerlApp (you
can generate executables for all supported platforms on a single
machine) and a PerlCritic GUI interface to configure and run coding
policies over your sources. Read the abbreviated release notes attached
below, or read all the details here:
http://docs.activestate.com/pdk/8.0/
For general information about the Perl Dev Kit please check out:
http://www.activestate.com/perl_dev_kit/
Enjoy!
The PDK Team, ActiveState
http://www.activestate.com
What's New in Perl Dev Kit 8.0?
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New PerlCritic application
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The new perlcritic-gui application is a GUI interface to the
Perl::Critic set of modules. Perl::Critic policies are used to analyze
Perl source code against "best practices".
perlcritic-gui acts as a policy editor for the .perlcriticrc
configuration files and can also be used to run Perl::Critic against a
tree of sources and walk through the scan results interactively.
Cross-building support in PerlApp
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PerlApp can now create non-native executables for any other platform
supported by the PDK. PerlApp can automatically maintain an ActivePerl
installation for these other platforms. It will try to install all
locally available modules via PPM into the non-native Perl
installations too.
The --list-targets option displays a list of all available target
platforms that can be specified with the --target option. Alternatively
you can maintain the non-native ActivePerl installation yourself and use
the --target-perl option to tell PerlApp where to find it.
Cross-platform building works with ActivePerl 818 and later.
Other PerlApp improvements
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* Wildcard support for --add
The --add option now supports the same set of wildcards as the
--trim option.
* Windows manifest support
PerlApp, PerlCtrl, PerlNET, PerlSvc and PerlTray support user supplied
manifests using the --manifest option. The --nomanifest option specifies
that no manifest at all should be added.
The default manifest has been updated to specify a requested execution
level of "asInvoker" for Windows Vista and later.
* Heuristics updates
Dependency heuristics have been updated for various popular packages.
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