Re: Windows Script Host support
Hi Luigi, I remember that 20 years ago ActivePerl (from ActiveState) had this. https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/ I don't think that StrawberryPerl ever had it. But nowadays WSH is just legacy. It still works, but Microsoft has stopped making it evolve, favoring PowerShell. I have quite played with WSH in the past (but using, JavaScript) and often suffered from its limitations. Do you have a motivation for wanting to use Perl from CScript.exe instead of perl.exe? Olivier. Le ven. 12 juin 2020 à 10:21, Luigi Iotti a écrit : > Hi all, > > somebody know if Strawberry Perl supports Windows Script Host (WSH), aka > ActiveX scripting host (maybe there is a difference between the two > terms)? > I mean, if you may run for example cscript //E:PerlScript myscript.pl, > maybe > changing PerlScript with some other string. > This would permit to use Perl as a scripting engine in applications which > make use of WSH scripting engines. > > Thanks, regards > Luigi >
Re: StrawberryPerl and the OpenSSL heartbleed bug
2014-04-16 15:04 GMT+02:00 Alexandr Ciornii alexcho...@gmail.com: A specially created server ( http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/4/10/testing-for-reverse-heartbleed , in Russian: http://www.xakep.ru/post/62350/default.asp ) can send similar request to client. But such attack has low probability. It is not recommended to use such online services. Some really try to capture as much as they can from your system. Instead, use an open source offline solution that you run yourself for your machine : pacemaker. https://github.com/Lekensteyn/pacemaker I verified that openssl bundled with StrawberryPerl 5.18.2.1 is vulnerable. You can reproduce it like this (while pacemaker.py is running): C:\strawberry\c\bin\openssl s_client -connect 127.0.0.1:4433
StrawberryPerl and the OpenSSL heartbleed bug
Hi, You have probably heard of the now famous heartblead bug of the OpenSSL library. http://heartbleed.com/ StrawberryPerl is bundled with a binary of the OpenSSL library so I'm wondering if StrawberryPerl is affected by the bug. I had a look at the release notes of StrawberryPerl to look for the version number of the OpenSSL and all versions of StrawberryPerl since at least 5.16.0.1 have an OpenSSL in the range affected by the heartbleed bug. It would be helpful to have an official statement from the StrawberryPerl team regarding this issue and to display it prominently on the StrawberryPerl.com page. Olivier Mengué https://metacpan.org/author/DOLMEN
Re: AnyEvent not working in Windows 2000
2012/11/13 Javier Marcon javiermar...@gmail.com Hello I installed Net::RabbitFoot (that uses AnyEvent) on Windows 2000 (with a Strawberyperl installation) and it doesn't work, it gives this error: Can't use string () as a subroutine ref while strict refs in use at C:/straw berry/perl/site/lib/Coro/AnyEvent.pm line 147. Line 147 of Coro::AnyEvent in Coro 6.10 is POD text, so I suspect that you are not using the latest version. So try to upgrade this module first. Which version of StrawberryPerl do you use? The same scripts in Ubuntu Linux work fine. Check if you are using the same version of Perl and of each module dependency (not just Coro). You can use Devel::TraceUse to list all modules loaded by the script. Olivier.
IPC::Cmd 0.72 in Strawberry 5.14.2.1-32bits
Hi, The IPC::Cmd 0.72 that is bundled in Strawberry 5.14.2.1-32bits has a major bug: it doesn't even compile. See RT#75033: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75033 This blocks the clean install of major modules such as CPAN::Reporter. The user can of course upgrade the IPC::Cmd (if ever he understands the problem), but this gives a bad experience for first time Perl users. Would it be possible that a new patched version of Strawberry be released that would just upgrade IPC::Cmd to 0.76? Thanks, Olivier.
Re: Are Windows users using the PowerShell or any other command line?
2011/7/26 Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com So I am wondering now. Have the world of Windows changed in the last several years and do people use the PowerShell? My guess is that the general public won't use it but do at least programmers, Windows sysadmins and the more technical people use it? Only sysadmins really have interest in learning PowerShell. I don't know about .NET developers. They could have some value in knowing it, but I don't know the .NET community. I assume there are not many people on this list but I wonder what do you think? Is assuming knowledge of the PowerShell realistic? What is your target audience? Among the general Windows users, no. Among developers on Windows (using Windows only as a desktop to work on remote systems or OS independent applications), no. Among .NET developers, I don't know. PowerShell is still quite new and marketed only at Windows sysadmins. Personally I still do my Windows desktop administration tasks with NT batch files, WSH (JavaScript) and sometimes Perl (most of my Perl code is system independent stuff). Is there a website or some forum with a lot of Windows developers where I might ask this question? Maybe even run a poll? The Microsoft forums : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/categories/ Microsoft Scripting Guys on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ScriptingGuys Olivier (dol...@cpan.org).
Re: Are Windows users using the PowerShell or any other command line?
2011/7/26 Dami Laurent (PJ) laurent.d...@justice.ge.ch The Script Center has a lot or technical information and good recipes; see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter . However there is no indication about about a developer's community. The PowerShell community repository of code is here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/ Mostly scripts for sysadmins. Very few libraries. Libraries are written in .NET, and this is a different developer community.
