...and is not found in the Active State repo for 5.018...

Looks like ActiveState is claiming to have Win32::GUI version 1.11 available in their repositories for 5.16, 5.18 and 5.20 versions of ActivePerl. (see here)

...suggests the package may not be under active development?

Actually, looking at Win32::GUI shows that the latest version (1.11) was released Nov. 8, 2014. Looking at the version history, looks like KMX took over the module and put out version 1.07 back in October 2014. Although KMX has taken over as maintainer of the Win32::GUI module on CPAN, that may not also be true of the Win32::GUI project on SourceForge.

I'm not going to claim that Win32::GUI is the "best" module for making GUIs on Windows. Just wanted to point out that Win32::GUI has a new maintainer and has had new releases in the past 4 months.

In reply to Re^2: What should i install to use GUI in windows 8(x64) Strawberry or Activeperl by dasgar
in thread What should i install to use GUI in windows 8(x64) Strawberry or Activeperl by ppp

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