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Thanks!

Curio50 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:55:31 -0700

for your time and advice!

Mike

WIn 9X

grahams — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:29:29 -0700

Win 9X/ME is not supported for new versions, and the installers on newer versions may have some issues.

If you don't need the latest features, a safe bet would be ActivePerl 5.6.1.638. It's still supported and if I recall correctly was released while Win 9X was also still supported.

If you need a 5.8 version, supported 822 may work. 820 is unsupported, but is another possibility for 9X.

You can play with any of the old versions you like. Only the most recent versions of 5.6, 5.8, and 5.10 are supported, but everything we have ever released is available at:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/
A decent yardstick for the reliability of any specific version is to look at how quickly a replacement was released.

Identifying the right Tcl distribution for my OS version

jeffh — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:20:16 -0800

Windows 98 is an officially end-of-lifed system, which is why we don't support or test on it anymore. You should find that the latest ActiveTcl releases do work on Win98 still, but it is a matter of time before they don't. We recently found and fixed an installer issue for Windows 98 (the updated release will be available with 8.5.1.0 in a day or two), but the core still does work. However, it is the Tcl core team's official stance that 8.4 was the last version to officially support Win9x systems. This frees them to use APIs that are only available in Windows NT-based systems.

Tcl Dev Kit USERPROFILE usage

jeffh — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:11:07 -0700

The teacup portion of TDK expects the $USERPROFILE environment variable to be defined and point to the user's home directory. The easiest work-around is to create this Windows env var. The use of this is noted at:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActiveTcl/8.4/tpm/tpm/files/CTP_te...

We will look into what alternatives are best when USERPROFILE is not defined (this is possibly only a Win9x issue?).

STDIN

kevinw — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:22:34 -0700

Hello Bruno,

I don't have an ISAPI module set up at the moment but I would imagine it would give you data on STDIN, same as a CGI POST request.

Cheers,

kjw

Can't directly upgrade from 5.6 to 5.8

kevinw — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:21:37 -0700

Hi Joe,

You can't directly upgrade from 5.6 to 5.8 -- too many things change, including the modules. Here's the way to sanity:

uninstall all versions of ActivePerl using the Add/Remove Programs control panel
delete the ActivePerl installation directory and all files and directories therein
install the new version of ActivePerl
re-install the modules using PPM

The problems with PPM sound like modules failing because they're 5.6 modules trying to be loaded by a 5.8 interpreter or vice versa.

Cheers,

kjw