I'm happy to announce the release of ActivePerl 5.8.8.820.
http://www.Acti
veState.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/Active
Perl/5.8/changes-58.html
As usual, please send us feedback regarding ActivePerl to
mailto:ActivePerl-feedbackActiveState.com
and report any bugs or enhancement requests at
http://bugs.ActiveState.c
om
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
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