ActiveState announces new ActivePerl builds of 5.8.9, 5.10.1,

ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.8.9 build 828,
ActivePerl 5.10.1 build 1008, and ActivePerl 5.12.2 build 1203,
complete, ready-to-install binary distributions of Perl.

Builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made freely available.
Builds for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are available with ActivePerl Business
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What's new in ActivePerl
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* All bundled modules have been updated to their latest stable releases.

* DBD::Pg has been added for all builds.

* DBD::Oracle has been included in 64-bit builds for Linux and Windows
(it was already included in 32-bit builds for Linux and Windows
in earlier releases).

* PerlScript has been added in the 64-bit Windows release of
ActivePerl 5.12.2 build 1203.


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Supported Platforms
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Where"s Tk?

I have Activestate Perl 5.12.2 (build 1202) installed. I can see some Tk
extension packages in the PPM gui, but no sign of Tk itself.

Is there a problem, or is just me looking in the wrong place?


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Re: Where"s Tk?

Hi Brian,

On 16/12/2010 5:02 AM, Brian Raven wrote:
> I have Activestate Perl 5.12.2 (build 1202) installed. I can see some Tk
> extension packages in the PPM gui, but no sign of Tk itself.
>
> Is there a problem, or is just me looking in the wrong place?

Tk 804.029 is currently not building out of the box for us on Windows
(it is working on Linux). You can see our failing build log at (scroll
to the end for error):

http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.12/1200/S/SR/SREZI C/Tk-804.029.d/log-20100527T210152.txt

and it appears other testers are having issues:

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Tk+804.029

The log indicates it is in tkGlue.c, a mismatch to core regexp
structures. Probably something that changed for 5.12. We'll look at
this again to see if it just needs some simple prodding.

Note that you will find Tkx with ActivePerl 5.12. It uses the Tcl-only
binding to provide Tk functionality, though with a slightly different
syntax. There was an effort underway to provide a Perl/Tk compatible
syntax layer, though I'm not sure of the status of that.

Jeff
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RE: Where"s Tk?

-----Original Message-----
From: Sisyphus [mailto:sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: 16 December 2010 22:26
To: Brian Raven; activeperl@activestate.com;
perl-win32-users@activestate.com
Subject: Re: Where's Tk?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Raven"
> To: ;
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 12:02 AM
> Subject: Where's Tk?
>
>
> >I have Activestate Perl 5.12.2 (build 1202) installed. I can see some
Tk
> > extension packages in the PPM gui, but no sign of Tk itself.
> >
> > Is there a problem, or is just me looking in the wrong place?
>
> There's a ppm package for Tk-804.029 at the bribes repo.
> You should be able to grab it with:
>
> ppm repo add bribes
> then
> ppm install Tk

I had already added the bribes repository, but ppm (gui and command
line) reports zero packages. However a fully qualified manual install,
as suggested on the bribes web site, i.e.

ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Tk.ppd

worked just fine. Tk is now installed.

Thanks to Sysyphus for the pointer, and to everybody else that
responded.


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RE: Where"s Tk?

-----Original Message-----
From: activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com
[mailto:activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com] On Behalf Of Brian
Raven
Sent: 17 December 2010 17:25
To: Sisyphus; activeperl@activestate.com;
perl-win32-users@activestate.com
Subject: RE: Where's Tk?

> ...
>
> I had already added the bribes repository, but ppm (gui and command
> line) reports zero packages. However a fully qualified manual install,
> as suggested on the bribes web site, i.e.
>
> ...

Just a quick follow-up. I deleted the bribes repo from ppm and added it
again. My ppm now sees the packages in the bribes repo. Whatever was
stopping it before seems to have gone away now.


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