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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>wrote: > > Even a newer version probably wouldn't be worth supporting: there seem to > be practically no users, and it's past its useful life anyway now that there > are other free alternatives (which I think there weren't when support for it > was first added). And if we look at the alternatives, there are two maintained free alternatives: - mingw, used to build Strawberry Perl, used by Strawberry Perl and ActivePerl users to build modules. - MS's cl, used by ActiveState to build Perl, used by ActivePerl users to build modules. Anyone releasing binary libraries these days would release something compatible with these. The only downside I can see would be a possible lack of ability to link to binary libraries built using BCC. There can't be many of those?? And a company desperate enough to use those can still use a relatively modern Perl. - EricThread Previous