Official ActiveState policy announcement: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the upcoming release of ActivePerl 5.14.1, ActiveState will no longer be offering 5.8 and 5.10 Community Edition builds for free download. As is currently the case with ActivePerl 5.6, these older versions will continue to be available through ActivePerl Business and Enterprise Edition.
In the future, only the two most recent stable releases will be available for free download. This corresponds to the Perl community's own version support policy: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.14/lib/pods/perlpolicy.html#maintenance_and_support Whenever the underlying Perl version becomes "unsupported" by the Perl community itself, support for the corresponding ActivePerl versions will be limited to Business and Enterprise Edition customers. You can continue to use older ActivePerl releases indefinitely under the terms of the Community Edition license, you just won't be able to download the installers from ActiveState. If for some reason you cannot update to a supported version of Perl, hang on to your copy of the installer! The PPM repositories for unsupported ActivePerl releases will remain freely accessible for at least 6 months after support ends, but they may no longer be updated with new builds from CPAN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
