activestate perlex: is it real?

[fergus]

Hi,

I am attempting to develop code at a site using perlex. Having lots of
bother with meaningless messages in c:\Perl\bin\PerlEx-Err-002.log and
I figured I would
try and print some message to the log myself. But I could find no doc
or info on
how to write to the log files. Writing to STDERR has no effect.

But, surfing about I did find one or two postings to the effect that
perlex has been
discontinued.

Is this true? What is its status?

I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2

 

[Ron Bergin]

Hi,

I am attempting to develop code at a site using perlex. Having lots of
bother with meaningless messages in c:\Perl\bin\PerlEx-Err-002.log and
I figured I would
try and print some message to the log myself. But I could find no doc
or info on
how to write to the log files. Writing to STDERR has no effect.

But, surfing about I did find one or two postings to the effect that
perlex has been
discontinued.

Is this true? What is its status?

I have not used perlex, but if the official mailing list is any
indication, it would appear to be dead. The last posting to the
mailing list was mid 2007.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/perlex

I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2

IMO, that's a bigger problem.

You should upgrade to at the very least 5.8 or preferably 5.10.

 

[Fergus McMenemie]

I have not used perlex, but if the official mailing list is any
indication, it would appear to be dead. The last posting to the
mailing list was mid 2007.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/perlex

Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
I came across this today:-

http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html

which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
in late 2007.

IMO, that's a bigger problem.

You should upgrade to at the very least 5.8 or preferably 5.10.

If only it were my choice!

 

[John Bokma]

Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
I came across this today:-

http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html

which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
in late 2007.

This is most likely an automatically added footer. Don't be surprised if
it says 2010 in a month or 2.

 

[Phred Phungus]

Quoth (e-mail address removed) (Fergus McMenemie):

Almost certainly the docs were all regenerated, and the copyright year
updated, when ActiveState rolled their release of 5.10.1 (which was
itself released in August 2009).


You should point out to whoever makes that choice that both 5.6 and 5.8
are considered end-of-life and completely unsupported by p5p, and that
most CPAN authors are moving to a minimum supported perl version of
5.8.1. Any security holes in 5.6 or the modules you have for 5.6 will
likely never be fixed, and if there are any issues with Vista (and I
wouldn't be surprised if there were) they will also never be fixed.

Ben

It's so nice to be able to post from a platform that is *not*
activestate. It's a fantastic tool for windows.

 

[Thrill5]

Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
I came across this today:-

http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html

which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
in late 2007.


If only it were my choice!

Most of ActiveStates products suffer from extremely poor documentation, (or
a total lack thereof) It's no wonder that most of them end up being
discontinued or no longer supported. The existing PerlEx documenation only
refrences only IIS 5.0, which was release with Windows 2000 about 10 years
ago. I know it works with IIS 6.0 and 7.0, only because I tested it, but
you would never know that from the docs.