According to the ActivePerl site, there's now a beta of 5.8 from ActiveState.

Apart from activestate 5.8 ppm module question, I haven't seen much about it here yet.

Has anyone tried it? How is it? Is the socket binmode problem resolved, for instance? I'd expect so, since an AS person is the one who posted the patch for it... (I am going to read the release notes, but it looks like I have to download an 11.5 meg zip file to get them. Argh.)

I'm going to try it out at home, but I was curious about any comments, positive or negative, my fellow monasterians might have about it.

Thanks!
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Mike

In reply to ActivePerl 5.8 Beta 1: yea or nay? by RMGir

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