Win32::API IS available via PPM from ActiveState. From "ActiveState PPM2 Repository" at http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.pl?urn:/PPMServer

I installed it on the 16th of January. (Per my c:\perl\site\lib\ppm.xml)

DBI is available as well. If you need some module that is not available from ActiveState or some other repository, try to ask in activeperl@listserver.activestate.com and quite likely someone will compile it for you.

Still I think it's best to keep both versions on your disk for some time (I do have 5.6.1 631 and 5.8 804) and if you have problems with 5.8 use the old one.

Jenda

Update: DB_File 1.806 compiled against Berkeley DB 4.1.25 is now available from my repository http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl