Win32::Daemon - dead or alive?

mzedeler has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi fellow perl users.

I am currently working in a Windows environment using Activestate perl 5.10.0. I've been using srvany from Microsoft, but would like more fine grained control using Win32::daemon, but it seems that the module is dead. I can't get it from CPAN or Activestate any longer, and the author (Dave Roth) only has a very old version on his home page.

Does anyone out there know what the status of this module is? (I tried Dave, but got no response.)

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Re: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 29, 2009 at 09:46 UTC
Search: win32 daemon 5.10 Win32::Daemon with 5.10.	[reply]
Re: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by Marshall (Canon) on Jun 29, 2009 at 17:32 UTC
In Windows, a daemon is called a service. The ActiveState program that can make this is called PerlSvc. One link: (other PDK versions are available - this isn't the latest) http://docs.activestate.com/pdk/7.3/PerlSvc_overview.html Of course the disadvantage of this is that you have to buy it from ActiveState.	[reply]
Re^2: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by mzedeler (Pilgrim) on Jun 29, 2009 at 19:03 UTC
Thanks for the hints. I have been looking at Activestates offering and found in comparison that Win32::Daemon looks promising. For this reason, I want to know what is happening to that particular module.	[reply]
Re^3: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by Marshall (Canon) on Jun 30, 2009 at 03:41 UTC
I'd be curious to know what you find out re: ActiveState vs Win32::Daemon. None of my Windows programs require a daemon, but you never know....	[reply]
Re^4: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by mzedeler (Pilgrim) on Jul 01, 2009 at 07:18 UTC
Re^5: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 02, 2009 at 22:20 UTC
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Re: Win32::Daemon - dead or alive? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jul 03, 2009 at 01:03 UTC
mzedeler, You may be interested in the following two threads - Turn a perl script into a Win32 Service and Win32::OLE (Outlook) as a windows service. Disregard the concern that I couldn't get it to work as it seems to be specific to Win32::OLE (Outlook) that prevented it from working correctly. It appears that the version on CPAN is not updated but that it is still under active development (for some definitions of active). Cheers - L~R	[reply]