Checking one of my inboxes I found an interesting email message from ActiveState announcing commercial Perl support for Mac OS X.
ActiveState is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for the Mac OS X platform. More importantly to this list, we are very excited to announce our plan to release Komodo for Mac OS X later this year. We expect to offer a beta release in August.
To keep up-to-date with our Mac OS X progress, betas and
announcements, we invite you to join our new mailing list:BTW, the free downloads of ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for Mac OS X are available here:
I've been fairly pleased with my standard Perl distribution running on Mac OS X with BBEdit for writing code. Before I switched, I used Komodo and their version of Perl for Windows. I kind of liked it though I can't say I miss it – perhaps that was because of all of the Windows baggage I left behind. As I dive deeper in standard command-line tool shedding my all GUI past, shedding a slick Perl development app like Komodo seemed appropriate no matter what the quality.
I think this is a win for Mac folk in that ActiveState had a nice installer and a more sensible distribution of Perl. ActiveState windows installation included must-have modules such as LWP, XML::Parser and others that the standard distribution lacks. The lack of support to highly popular function in Perl like XML parsing or Web interfaces has always been a great mystery to me. That's why I'm glad to see a company like ActiveState pushing that notion.
It will be interesting to see what effect a commercial entity like ActiveState will have in the adoption of Perl (and Python) on the Mac.
<p>Checking one of my inboxes I found an interesting email message from ActiveState announcing commercial Perl support for Mac OS X.</p>
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<p>ActiveState is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for the Mac OS X platform. More importantly to this list, we are very excited to announce our plan to release Komodo for Mac OS X later this year. We expect to offer a beta release in August.</p>
<p>To keep up-to-date with our Mac OS X progress, betas and<br />announcements, we invite you to join our new mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="mailto:osx-announce@ActiveState.com">osx-announce@ActiveState.com</a></p>
<p>BTW, the free downloads of ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for Mac OS X are available here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ActiveState.com/Languages">www.ActiveState.com/Languages</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>I've been fairly pleased with my standard Perl distribution running on Mac OS X with BBEdit for writing code. Before I switched, I used Komodo and their version of Perl for Windows. I kind of liked it though I can't say I miss it – perhaps that was because of all of the Windows baggage I left behind. As I dive deeper in standard command-line tool shedding my all GUI past, shedding a slick Perl development app like Komodo seemed appropriate no matter what the quality.</p>
<p>I think this is a win for Mac folk in that ActiveState had a nice installer and a more sensible distribution of Perl. ActiveState windows installation included must-have modules such as LWP, XML::Parser and others that the standard distribution lacks. The lack of support to highly popular function in Perl like XML parsing or Web interfaces has always been a great mystery to me. That's why I'm glad to see a company like ActiveState pushing that notion.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see what effect a commercial entity like ActiveState will have in the adoption of Perl (and Python) on the Mac.</p>
