Welcome to ActivePerl

Thank you for using ActivePerl, ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Perl, available for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Perl, ActiveState provides the ActivePerl binary packages free to the community. ActivePerl includes:

• Perl, the binary core distribution
• The Perl Package Manager, for installing Perl extension modules
• Complete documentation

The Windows version of ActivePerl also includes:

• PerlScript, an ActiveX scripting engine, like JavaScript or VBScript, with a Perl brain
• Perl for ISAPI, an IIS plug-in that runs Perl CGI scripts faster
• PerlEz, for embedding Perl the easy way

Refer to the Release Notes for information about this version of ActivePerl.

ActiveState Products

ActiveState is the leading provider of technology solutions based on Perl and productivity tools for Perl programmers.

Solutions

• ActivePerl Pro Studio, a complete package of Perl productivity tools and programming information.
• PerlASPX, use Perl for dynamic content generation on ASP.NET Web servers.

Productivity Tools

• Perl Dev Kit, the essential toolkit for building Perl applications for UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Komodo, the cross-platform integrated development environment for open source languages.
• Visual Perl, the Perl plug-in for Visual Studio .NET.

Contact ActiveState

For installation-related support issues, contact support@ActiveState.com.

For general information and support, refer to the ActivePerl mailing list at http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl.

To report a bug, or to view bugs fixed in this release, see the ActivePerl bug site, at http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl.