ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003, a complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
This build is based on the release version of Perl 5.10.0. For detailed information or to download this release, see: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl New in ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 =================================== * ActivePerl::Config on Windows now dynamically sets the $Config{ccversion} to the version of cl.exe. This allows ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate and embed manifest files into extension DLL when required by the specific version of the C compiler. * The GCC support for Windows in ActivePerl::Config now adds the -mms- bitfields option to the ccflags when compiling with GCC. This forces identical struct layouts with Visual C++, which is used to compile ActivePerl itself. This has become important because core Perl 5.10 now uses bit-fields for some important structures. * On OS X the supplied sitecustomize.pl script adds the ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib directory to @INC, and PPM will install into this directory by default because the /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib directory isn't writable without sudo. Unfortunately ~/Library/ActivePerl/lib was also used by ActivePerl 5.8, so you could end up with a mixture of 5.8 and 5.10 modules in that directory. This release uses ~/Library/ActivePerl-5.10/lib as a per-user Perl 5.10 specific module area. * Signal handling code would segfault with some Linux kernel and glibc versions. This problem has been fixed. * On Windows there is a special form of them system() function to start processes asynchronously: system(1, $cmd). It returns the process id instead of the exit status so that the spawning application can eventually use waitpid() to wait for the external process to terminate. Previous Perl releases only returned the lower 16 bits of the process id; this version returns all 32 bits. * The following modules have been added to ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003: Algorithm-Diff-1.1902 Bit-Vector-6.4 Carp-Clan-6.00 Class-Accessor-0.31 Crypt-SSLeay-0.57 DBD-CSV-0.22 DBD-ODBC-1.15 DBD-Oracle-1.21 Date-Calc-5.4 File-HomeDir-0.69 File-Which-0.05 GD-2.39 GD-Graph-1.4308 GD-Text-0.86 JSON-2.09 JSON-XS-2.2 Net-Telnet-3.03 PPM-Repositories-0.14 SQL-Statement-1.15 Sub-Uplevel-0.1901 Test-Differences-0.47 Test-Exception-0.27 Text-CSV_XS-0.45 Text-Diff-0.35 Text-Glob-0.08 WWW-Mechanize-1.34-r1 Win32-API-0.55 YAML-LibYAML-0.26 The DBD::Oracle module is only included in the 32-bit releases of ActivePerl for Windows and Linux. It does not include the Oracle client libraries; instead it requires that either the regular client libraries or the Oracle Instant Client is already installed on configured on the system. ActiveState recommends DBI and DBD::ODBC for accessing databases using ODBC. The Win32::ODBC module continues to be provided for backwards compatibility, but new code should exclusively use DBD::ODBC. The PPM-Repositories module supplies a list of PPM repositories provided by sources outside ActiveState. It makes it easier to discover and configure additional repositories in PPM. For example you can display a list of repositories available for the current platform with: ppm repo suggest Adding e.g. the University of Winnipeg repository maintained by Randy Kobes is then as easy as: ppm repo add uwinnipeg The PPM-Repositories list is used by the PPM GUI client as well. * The following modules have been updated to their latest version: DBI upgraded from 1.601 to 1.604 HTML-Tagset upgraded from 3.10 to 3.20 LWP upgraded from 5.808 to 5.812-r1 URI upgraded from 1.35 to 1.36 * The libwin32 module collection has been replaced by its individual modules. This will make it easier to update these modules via PPM in the future: Win32-Clipboard Win32-Console Win32-EventLog Win32-File Win32-FileSecurity Win32-IPC Win32-Internet Win32-Job Win32-NetAdmin Win32-NetResource Win32-ODBC Win32-OLE Win32-PerfLib Win32-Process Win32-Registry Win32-Service Win32-Shortcut Win32-Sound Win32-TieRegistry Win32-WinError Win32API-File Win32API-Net Win32API-Registry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 now: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl Getting Started =============== Whether you're a first-time user or a long-time fan, our free resources will help you get the most from ActivePerl. Mailing list archives: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl Feedback ======== Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Perl an even better language. For bugs related to ActiveState use: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl&version=1003 For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility. Enjoy!
