Of relevance to mod_perl-2 Win32 users, ActivePerl just released a beta version of their perl-5.8 binary; see http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ Because of binary incompatibilities with 5.6, there's a separate 5.8 repository of ppm packages under http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/5.8-windows/ Such packages should be compatible with the perl-5.8 win32 binary we have under ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/perl-5.8-win32-bin.tar.gz if you've been using that.
Even though the ActivePerl package is beta, they've tested it out beforehand and fixed some things compared to the CPAN perl-5.8 sources; see ftp://ftp.activestate.com/ActivePerl/src/5.8/ for the diffs and for the complete sources used. If you're using mod_perl-2 on Win32 with perl-5.6.1 and have run into problems (such as hanging registry scripts), you may want to try perl-5.8. Over the next few days I'll make up a 5.8 Win32 ppm repository with mod_perl-2 and some other common packages; I'll post something later with the details. Unless there's a large demand for mod_perl-1 stuff, this repository will just include mod_perl-2 packages. -- best regards, randy kobes
