#Activeperl 5.10 0 software#

If the software you sell requires Perl 5.8 or 5.10, ActivePerl OEM provides you with the builds you need and the license to distribute ActivePerl to your customers.If you require more in-depth support backed by a service level agreement, Enterprise Edition is available.If the applications you rely on require an older version of Perl, Business Edition can give you access to the build you need and provides technical support.Extended supportĪctiveState provides official support for ActivePerl. For these people there is a need for support beyond what the community can provide. They are often businesses running legacy applications, scripts, system utilities, or small bits of network glue which have not been changed in years. The groups mostly overlap, but there are a significant number in the “user” group who rely on Perl as a piece of infrastructure rather than a language. A lot of proprietary software makers could take a lesson from the perlpolicy document.īut the needs of Perl programmers are not always the same as those of Perl users. That commitment is commendable, and it has ensured the continued interest in Perl by a new generation of programmers, a healthy CPAN community, and a vibrant language. By “official” they mean “what we’ve committed to provide on a best efforts basis”. Most of them are not paid for this work, and there are no contractual obligations or service level agreements requiring them to ensure that an application written 10 years ago will run with the current release.

Perl 5 is maintained by a group of volunteers who’s primary interest is the development of a useful, stable, modern implementation of the language. While there’s nothing particularly broken about the latest releases of Perl 5.8 and 5.10, if something were broken or vulnerable, the perl5-porters won’t be fixing it “officially”. We used an analogy about stale bread to illustrate the point, but someone on reddit summed it up much more succinctly: “ The good stuff is free, the old broken stuff will cost you“. When the underlying Perl version becomes “unsupported” by the Perl community itself, support for and access to the corresponding ActivePerl versions will be limited to Team, Business and Enterprise Tier subscription customers only.Last year, We wrote a post about our rationale for removing older builds from Community Edition. We’re bringing ActivePerl Community Edition in line with the maintenance and support policy of the perl5-porters. These versions can be licensed by our Team Tier (or higher) subscribers, although no support or maintenance is provided.

#Activeperl 5.10 0 for free#

ActivePerl Community Edition 5.8 and 5.10 are no longer available for free download.