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From: fergus on 4 Feb 2010 09:10
Hi,

I am attempting to develop code at a site using perlex. Having lots of
bother with meaningless messages in c:\Perl\bin\PerlEx-Err-002.log and
I figured I would
try and print some message to the log myself. But I could find no doc
or info on
how to write to the log files. Writing to STDERR has no effect.

But, surfing about I did find one or two postings to the effect that
perlex has been
discontinued.

Is this true? What is its status?

I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2


From: Ron Bergin on 4 Feb 2010 09:53
On Feb 4, 6:10 am, fergus <fer...(a)twig.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to develop code at a site using perlex. Having lots of
> bother with meaningless messages in c:\Perl\bin\PerlEx-Err-002.log and
> I figured I would
> try and print some message to the log myself. But I could find no doc
> or info on
> how to write to the log files. Writing to STDERR has no effect.
>
> But, surfing about I did find one or two postings to the effect that
> perlex has been
> discontinued.
>
> Is this true? What is its status?
>
I have not used perlex, but if the official mailing list is any
indication, it would appear to be dead. The last posting to the
mailing list was mid 2007.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/perlex


> I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2

IMO, that's a bigger problem.

You should upgrade to at the very least 5.8 or preferably 5.10.
From: Fergus McMenemie on 4 Feb 2010 16:51
Ron Bergin <rkb(a)i.frys.com> wrote:

> > discontinued.
> >
> > Is this true? What is its status?
> >
> I have not used perlex, but if the official mailing list is any
> indication, it would appear to be dead. The last posting to the
> mailing list was mid 2007.
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/perlex

Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
I came across this today:-

http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html

which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
in late 2007.

>
> > I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2
>
> IMO, that's a bigger problem.
>
> You should upgrade to at the very least 5.8 or preferably 5.10.

If only it were my choice!
From: John Bokma on 4 Feb 2010 17:32
fergus(a)twig-me-uk.not.here (Fergus McMenemie) writes:

> Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
> I came across this today:-
>
> http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html
>
> which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
> in late 2007.

This is most likely an automatically added footer. Don't be surprised if
it says 2010 in a month or 2.

--
John Bokma j3b

Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/
http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development
From: Ben Morrow on 4 Feb 2010 17:26

Quoth fergus(a)twig-me-uk.not.here (Fergus McMenemie):
> Ron Bergin <rkb(a)i.frys.com> wrote:
>
> > > discontinued.
> > >
> > > Is this true? What is its status?
> > >
> > I have not used perlex, but if the official mailing list is any
> > indication, it would appear to be dead. The last posting to the
> > mailing list was mid 2007.
> >
> > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/perlex
>
> Thanks for that. But there is definetly some FUD at work. After all
> I came across this today:-
>
> http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/PerlEx/Welcome.html
>
> which has a copyright in the footer of 2009! Now 5.10 only arrived
> in late 2007.

Almost certainly the docs were all regenerated, and the copyright year
updated, when ActiveState rolled their release of 5.10.1 (which was
itself released in August 2009).

> > > I am running perl v5.6.1 on vista sp 2
> >
> > IMO, that's a bigger problem.
> >
> > You should upgrade to at the very least 5.8 or preferably 5.10.
>
> If only it were my choice!

You should point out to whoever makes that choice that both 5.6 and 5.8
are considered end-of-life and completely unsupported by p5p, and that
most CPAN authors are moving to a minimum supported perl version of
5.8.1. Any security holes in 5.6 or the modules you have for 5.6 will
likely never be fixed, and if there are any issues with Vista (and I
wouldn't be surprised if there were) they will also never be fixed.

Ben

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