Everhart, Glenn
From:	Dan Sugalski [sugalskd@osshe.edu]
Sent:	Tuesday, October 13, 1998 11:59 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: PERL on OpenVMS - where to get
At 01:23 PM 10/13/1998 +0200, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
>MICHALECZ@scigames.at wrote:
>> Can someone tell me, where I can get PERL for VMS
>> (AXP, V6.2 in specific)
>
>source:
>  ftp://cor.newman.upenn.edu/perl5/

Ack! Nononononono! Those are development versions. Get the release versions
of off CPAN. Either hit http://www.perl.com/CPAN to find a CPAN mirror site
you like, or use one of the ones I hit by default (ftp.funet.fi in
/pub/languages/perl/CPAN, or ftp.orst.edu in /pub/packages/perl). Source
for perl is in the src subdirectory.=20

The latest version is in both latest.tar.gz and latest.zip, and is source
for 5.005_02. If you prefer source for the latest release of 5.004
(5.004_04 right now, though 5.004_05's due out RSN), it's in there as well,
though only as a .tar.gz file.

>binaries:
>  ftp://ftp.sidhe.org/

Which is more or less mirrored at http://www.sidhe.org/misc, if you prefer
web access.

There are also a number of VMS-specific perl modules on CPAN (eight at last
count). From the top level of a CPAN mirror, they're in the
modules/by-module/VMS subdirectory. I don't think any of them have had
formal announcements to Info-VAX/comp.os.vms, though.

I also keep some (rapidly getting out of date) perl info at
http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl for the curious.

					Dan

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