I'm happy to announce the release of the Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2. http://www.activestate.com/products/perl_dev_kit/beta.plex
If you never heard of the Perl Dev Kit before: ActiveState Perl Dev Kit (PDK) is a suite of tools for rapidly developing and delivering Perl applications. It includes everything you need to turn Perl programs into ready-to-run executables, debug Perl scripts, generate code for sophisticated filters, convert useful VBScript code to Perl, and create .NET and ActiveX components, Windows services and system tray applications. The PDK is commercial software. You will need to purchase a license for PDK 7.0 to continue to use it after the beta period. This release extends the beta expiration period to March 20th 2007. There are only minimal functional changes relative to Beta 1. The purpose of the Beta program is to receive feedback on new features. If you decide to try out the PDK 7 beta then please also subscribe to the PDK-beta mailing list to discuss the beta with both ActiveState and other beta tester. In addition you can always file bugs and enhancement requests at http://bugs.ActiveState.com Major changes since PDK 6 are: * Coverage and Hotspot Analyzer Analyze code coverage and hotspots in Perl programs and test suites. Test different versions or revisions of a program and compare them visually, or compare different test runs on the same code. * Mac OS X Support PerlApp, Filter Builder and the new Coverage and Hotspot Analyzer are now available for Mac OS X (Universal). * 64-Bit Support 64-bit command line versions of PerlApp are available for Linux (x86_64), Solaris (Sparc) and Windows (x64). 64-bit command line versions of PerlCtrl, PerlSvc and PerlTray are also included in the Windows builds. * Improved 32-Bit Support The GUI interface to PerlApp, Filter Builder, and the Coverage and Hotspot Analyzer are available for Solaris 10 on Intel (x86) and AIX 5.x. The command line version of PerlApp is available for HP-UX on Itanium. * Visual Package Manager (VPM) VPM has been superseded by the native PPM4 GUI included in ActivePerl 819 and later. This beta release can be installed side-by-side with the PDK 6 release version as long as it's installed in a separate directory. The installer does this by default. Cheers, -Jan
