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News
February 2010
- ActivePerl 5.10.1 Build 1007 released. Download from ActiveState.
- ActivePerl 5.8.9 Build 827 released. Download from ActiveState.
January 2010
October 2009
August 2009
- ActivePerl 5.10.1 Build 1006 released. Download from ActiveState.
May 2009
- ActivePerl 5.8.9 Build 826 released. Download from ActiveState.
Administrative Notices
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
- It's amazing that this happens: occasionally a comment (on a Talk: page or on a main content page) will be posted that something or another is outdated/incorrect/whatever. Don't just comment *about* something being incorrect on a wiki; if you're posting the comment, you have permission to actually *make* the change. That's the whole point of a wiki - not to have to post to an admin/editor and request a change/correction, but to actually make the change.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
- Going forward, please do not sign your edits of articles inline in the article. First, it doesn't scale. Second, content in the Win32 Perl wiki should be considered to be "owned" by the Win32 Perl community and not by individual authors/editors. As long as editors are contributing valid, non-spam information, anyone should feel entirely free to edit any content in the wiki as appropriate. To a degree, signing one's edits discourages this.
- Please DO sign/date (add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of commments you add in article discussion pages. Discussion threading is simulated by "indenting" your comment with one more colon (":") than the comment to which you're responding. Thanks.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
- Due to other measures being put in place, the ability to anonymously edit content without requiring email confirmation is being restored on a trial basis.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Added new CPAN module template shorthand for linking to a module in CPAN. See Template:CPAN (talk) for usage. Feel free to request or create other templates as needed.
Monday, March 24, 2008
- The Win32 Perl Wiki has been upgraded from Mediawiki version 1.6.7 to the current stable version - 1.12.0. See Mediawiki Release Notes for more information.
Installing Perl on Windows for the First Time?
The following should help you get started with Perl on Windows. If you get stuck, someone in the IRC channel may be able to help you.
Find us at irc://irc.perl.org/win32
Beginners
ActivePerl is currently the most popular way to get Perl for Windows. It is the most mature and well supported platform available, and installs CPAN modules using pre-built and pre-tested binary "PPM" packages that are known to work properly.
Intermediate
If you are already experienced with Perl on Unix and it's just Windows you aren't comfortable with, then you are almost certainly going to want to use Strawberry Perl which is the closest thing you will find to Perl on Unix, and is being used on a daily basis by a number of major CPAN authors and Perl personalities when they need to work on Windows. Strawberry Perl also installs a C compiler and make (software build tools), so you can download and build all 10,000 of the latest and greatest modules from the CPAN
Please note that if you are the sort of person to be using Strawberry, you're likely to encounter module installation issues from CPAN (simply because you will probably be installing a lot of modules and stressing them more). Please please remember to keep reporting the bugs or failures you see to that module's support queue on rt.cpan.org.
Advanced
Advanced users looking to create a custom Perl installation should get involved in development efforts for the Vanilla Perl Project.
Information about Perl on Windows
Looking for more information on a particular area of Windows Perl?
See the following for more information.
Distributions
Modules and Repositories
Help with Perl on Windows
Tools and Utilities
Frequently Asked Questions
So far, there aren't too many. If you have a question that isn't answered above, please see Questions and Answers.
Request for Volunteers
Want to help out? There's plenty to do! See the Request For Volunteers page.
For anyone who would comment on the irony of using a PHP wiki on a Perl website, we plan to move to migrate to Socialtext Open wiki.
