I'm happy to announce the release of ActivePerl 5.8.8.820. http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl
Major changes in build 820 are: * Improved support for Unicode filenames on Windows Many Perl internals will try to use the short 8.3 filename whenever the long filename cannot be represented in the system codepage. This makes it now possible to work with these files from Perl. Support has been added to the glob() and readdir() functions, the Cwd.pm module, the $^X and @INC variables and various other places. The Win32::GetLongPathName() will return the long name, as usual, but may now return a full Unicode name instead of using replacement characters. * New features and bug fixes for PPM4 Problems in both the command-line and the GUI interface of the new Perl Package Manager have been fixed, and some new functionality has been added as well. Check out the changelog for the details: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.8/changes-58.html As usual, please send us feedback regarding ActivePerl to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and report any bugs or enhancement requests at http://bugs.ActiveState.com Other major changes in the last few previous releases include: * Rewritten Perl Package Manager (PPM4) PPM4 now features a GUI client in addition to the command-line interface. This is a free replacement for the Visual Package Manager component of the ActiveState Komodo Professional and Perl Dev Kit products. PPM4 has been redesigned to allow updating of all modules in an ActivePerl installation, including core modules and modules used by PPM4 itself (once the repositories include these updated core modules). * Support for the Tcl, Tcl::Tk and Tkx modules The Tcl.pm module provides access to the latest versions of the Tcl interpreter and Tk module. This gives you better performance, better Unicode support, and a much larger set of native widgets, including themed widgets on Windows and Aqua widgets on OS X. Check out PPM4 or the applications in the ActiveState Perl Dev Kit for the look and feel of cross-platform GUI applications using these modules! * 64 bit releases for Linux, Solaris and Windows * Support for the MinGW GCC compiler on Windows You can build your own Perl extensions containing XS code with GCC if you don't own a copy of the Microsoft VC++ compiler. No configuration is necessary, just add the MinGW bin directory to the PATH. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
