I personally believe that this is not "real" news, (but I couldn't think of a better section and I wanted to say this thing to the world...) so those exclusively interested in them are advised to skip this post altogether!

Whatever, this is news for me: (albeit not terribly recent one...) after some years I thought to have at least heard most "brands" derived from Perl - from the most common ones like mod_perl to less known ones like PerlScript. (Well, perhaps the latter is not a perfect example but indeed even most people using ActivePerl don't know that it ships with PS, what it is for and above all, don't use it.) However the other day I was browsing Wikipedia under the influence of a well known but catastrophic effect when I landed on GNUWin II and I stumbled upon SiePerl.

SiePerl?!? What's that? (The WP entry is not hyperlinked...) But then the GW II guys themselves do explain it:

The binary version of perl (SiePerl) that is provided here was built by Siemens Business Services and comes under a free license but has no support. A commercially maintained version can be downloaded from ActiveState.

After this, it's not too much of a surprise to find the beast in CPAN and... a brief, passing mention here!

So, all in all: just surprised by the existence of this Perl distro (although it seems to have stopped at 5.8 its life!) which had eluded me for years, while I think to have stumbled in some way or another in all other ones, either short or long lived!

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Re: [OT?] A strange finding: Sieperl
by tye (Sage) on Aug 07, 2008 at 04:39 UTC

    It was nice in that it included a large number of modules in the distribution.

    If you want to find out about Win32 distributions of Perl, perhaps you should look at http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html#win32, which has long included SiePerl.

    - tye        

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      I personally believe that not only my impatience is growing better, but my hubris as well! (Which makes me hope I'll become a good programmer shortly!) In fact, there are quite a few of them which I had never ever heard of, either.

      OTOH I notice that the list is missing nothing less than vanilla and strawberry!! (Which is the only reason why I'm replying rather than /msg'ing you - perhaps someone would want to update it...)

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        I could see some arguing that vanilla/strawberry are not binary distributions of perl (being binary distributions of a C compiler environment bundled with Perl source code), but I agree that it only makes sense to mention and link to them from that page, even if a disclaimer is required to quell pedant objections.

        - tye        

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