RE: Perl 5.18.2 binary kits for OpenVMS available

Craig,

Thanks for getting this out (and so quickly)!

Happy New Year,

Carl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 8:21 PM
To: vmsperl ([email protected]); [email protected] Porters
Subject: Perl 5.18.2 binary kits for OpenVMS available

Installation kits for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64 v8.3 and later are avai=
lable at:

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/>

The files are self-extracting archives and after downloading
you must run them like so:

  $ run VMSPORTS-AXPVMS-PERL-V0518-2-1.SFX_AXPEXE

for Alpha, and:

  $ run VMSPORTS-I64VMS-PERL-V0518-2-1.SFX_I64EXE

for Itanium.  Then, on either platform:

  $ product install perl

and follow the usual installation prompts.

Have an appropriate amount of fun.  Anything related to these kits that tur=
ns out to be more fun than you can handle is probably best reported on the =
vmsperl mailing list.[1]

Changes in this release can be found via typing "perldoc perldelta" after i=
nstallation, but note that the following item was inadvertently deleted fro=
m those release notes:

    The PERL_ENV_TABLES feature to control the population of %ENV at perl
    start-up was broken in Perl 5.16.0 but has now been fixed.


[1] <http://lists.perl.org/list/vmsperl.html>

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