Hi Monks

Today we found that the package repository for Perl 5.6.1 is password protected, and PPM also fails when trying to download 5.6.1 packages. I talked with ActiveState and they are saying that 5.6.1 packages can now only be obtained by purchasing an enterprise edition Perl from them. Furthermore if we plan to distribute any packages obtained from such that we must license any computers that we install these packages on.

I know that we may seem lame for still using 5.6, but we have about 10,000,000 lines of Perl that management is refusing to let us to port. If this is true and there no longer is access to the package library for this version free of charge, then I guess I have another reason to push for an upgrade to 5.10, but this doesn't solve my immediate problem of getting access to packages that were previously free to use and share.

Has anyone else found this yet? Are there options?

Thanks - Rick

In reply to ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected? by fwashbur

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