Marza has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I saw it was available for download

Is it worth it? I don't have any issues but I do like to stay current.

Anybody tried it out yet? What do you think of it?

Thanks!

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Re: ActiveState 5.8.0 worth the upgrade?
by pg (Canon) on Dec 14, 2002 at 22:59 UTC
    I use 5.8.0 everyday.

    Generally speaking, YES. I give you three biggest benefits I get from it:
    1. A better support for Unicode, now you can use Unicode in hash key, regexp etc. You can expect more improvement in the future.
    2. A much better support of thread, now you don't need to use fork everywhere. A big improvement. I love it.
    3. Layered IO, you can use it to alter your descriptor's behavior, a very neat design, for example, you can insert a ":utf8" layer in between, to make your descriptor UTF8-aware.
    Some bugs reported, but overall, it is good. Bugs? well they are in every program.

    ;-) The purpose of testing is to find out bugs, not to prove the program is 100% correct, which, in theory, has been proved to be a mission impossible.
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Re: ActiveState 5.8.0 worth the upgrade?
by Nitrox (Chaplain) on Dec 15, 2002 at 16:58 UTC
    I'm also enjoying the latest AS Perl release along with their new release of the Perl Development Kit.

    The main "gottcha" I keep running into are modules that are not yet thread-friendly/safe. (Win32::OLE for example)

    -Nitrox

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Re: ActiveState 5.8.0 worth the upgrade?
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 16, 2002 at 02:47 UTC
    I have problem to make it work with mod_perl though.
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      There are some modules missing though, like Tk and DBD-Oracle related. Any idea when or where I can get DBD-Oracle for 5.8 ?
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