Steven J. Owens said:
>
> Perl itself has no Y2K issues. God alone only knows what Microsoft
> introduced into the mix. Particularly, you should check to see if the
> version Perl installed on your machine is the ActiveState port. ActiveState
> is owned by Microsoft - in the Perl community, their version of Perl for
> Win32 is regarded with suspicion and some distrust, particularly because
> it has diverged from the main Perl codebase.
This is all true except for everything after the first sentence. :)
ActiveState is a privately held company with no relationship to MS.
It is actually a partnership with O'Reilly & Associates, the new
corporate parents of Perl (with the full blessing of Larry Wall).
Early versions of ActiveState were based on a modified 5.003, while
various other more "public" versions were based on 5.004; this is
the source of the "distrust" that was mentioned. However, all is rosey
now as the 5.005 codebase is fully cross-platform and ActiveState is
the only remaining "sanctioned" version for Win32 (again, with Larry's
blessing).
--bill
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