Hi Can someone point me to the latest stable Alpha release of Perl (pref a binary release)
Your request is not possible; the Alpha releases are, by default, not stable. In addition, I don't believe anyone is building binaries of 5.9.x (the development branch) for public consumption. That being said, if what you want is 5.8.5 (which is the latest stable release branch), you can always find the source here:
http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html
and I think you'll find that building from source is much improved. You only need the C compiler and mmk/mms.
HTH
John
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