ANNOUNCE: Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2 available

I'm happy to announce the release of the Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2.

http://www.activestate.com/products/perl_dev_kit/beta.plex

If you never heard of the Perl Dev Kit before:

ActiveState Perl Dev Kit (PDK) is a suite of tools for rapidly
developing and delivering Perl applications. It includes everything
you need to turn Perl programs into ready-to-run executables, debug
Perl scripts, generate code for sophisticated filters, convert
useful VBScript code to Perl, and create .NET and ActiveX
components, Windows services and system tray applications.

The PDK is commercial software. You will need to purchase a license
for PDK 7.0 to continue to use it after the beta period.

This release extends the beta expiration period to March 20th 2007.
There are only minimal functional changes relative to Beta 1.

The purpose of the Beta program is to receive feedback on new
features. If you decide to try out the PDK 7 beta then please also
subscribe to the PDK-beta mailing list to discuss the beta with both
ActiveState and other beta tester.

In addition you can always file bugs and enhancement requests at

http://bugs.ActiveState.com

Major changes since PDK 6 are:

* Coverage and Hotspot Analyzer

Analyze code coverage and hotspots in Perl programs and test
suites. Test different versions or revisions of a program and
compare them visually, or compare different test runs on the same
code.

* Mac OS X Support

PerlApp, Filter Builder and the new Coverage and Hotspot Analyzer
are now available for Mac OS X (Universal).

* 64-Bit Support

64-bit command line versions of PerlApp are available for Linux
(x86_64), Solaris (Sparc) and Windows (x64). 64-bit command line
versions of PerlCtrl, PerlSvc and PerlTray are also included in the
Windows builds.

* Improved 32-Bit Support

The GUI interface to PerlApp, Filter Builder, and the Coverage and
Hotspot Analyzer are available for Solaris 10 on Intel (x86) and AIX
5.x. The command line version of PerlApp is available for HP-UX on
Itanium.

* Visual Package Manager (VPM)

VPM has been superseded by the native PPM4 GUI included in
ActivePerl 819 and later.

This beta release can be installed side-by-side with the PDK 6 release
version as long as it's installed in a separate directory. The
installer does this by default.

Cheers,
-Jan