[Info-vax] Perl 5.22.0 binary kits for OpenVMS available

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/4/15 4:39 PM, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> In article <mkpjfu$2uo$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:

>>  Note that the major version
>> is now included in the product name so this installation will not remove
>> installations of previous versions (e.g., 5.18 or 5.20).
>
> Would be good to know, if it easy to have more than one version installed
> in parallel and use one or the other (by e.g. simply redefining a logcial)?

Yep. Just run perl_setup.com in the top-level directory of whichever one
you want to run. Or look at what it does (it's pretty simple) and do
your own fiddling with the PERL_ROOT logical name. The issue I had with
previous kits is that the product name was simply "PERL" so installing
Perl 5.20 removed Perl 5.18, which was completely unnecessary. Now I
include the major release version in the product name, currently giving
PERL522 as the product name. Which won't conflict with a product named
PERL nor, next year, with one named PERL524.

> As I didn't follow for quite some time now, I need to ask:
> Does this default build contain now MOD_PERL (for Apache/CSWS)?

No. I spent a couple hours looking into trying to build that a few
months ago and figured out that it would take me more than a couple
hours :-(. It involves trawling through the CSWS source kit and trying
to understand how the build procedures work and also whether a current
version of mod_perl can even be made to work with a ten-year-old version
of Apache.