Well, .NET can support what it likes, that only matters to people using .NET!

To be honest, I have never come across anybody using Perl in the .NET environment. It has been suggested to me that one of the reasons that ActiveState dropped the Perl .NET support was because of very low usage rates. But Perl on Win32 doesn't rely on .NET ir any of the .NET hooks - unless you want it to.

Whatever happens between ActiveState and Microsoft will quite likely not affect the distribution at all. Microsoft tends to be full of internal hype and bluster - which ultaimtely translates into very little! I haven't seen any less support from AS for Perl and I do know some pretty big governments that will not accept anything written in a Microsoft propretary language unless it was written by Microsoft.

jdtoronto

In reply to Re: Future of Perl on Win32? by jdtoronto
in thread Future of Perl on Win32? by bowei_99

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