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From:
sisyphus
Date:
June 2, 2022 03:18
Subject:
Re: Which versions of Windows are still supported ?
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CADZSBj3tk2nwFzaTA2LnB9FmnHi2uLe7cnHof34F6_q1Rpao8A@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 9:30 PM Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ....
> It is deeply concerning that Strawberry is still on 5.32. This looks like
> something toolchain or p5p might need to adopt.


At some stage after 5.32 was released, the maintainer (kmx) quit.
Chase Whitener has taken over and, just a couple of days ago, posted that
he's still working on getting 5.34 and 5.36 strawberry releases made - and
confident of doing so.
Building perl itself is easy on Windows - but Strawberry Perl undertakes to
additionally provide a wide range of C libraries (eg GD, GMP and OPenSSL),
along with some of the perl extensions that utilize the provided C
libraries.
That adds considerably to the amount and complexity of the work that needs
to be done - quite a task for someone to just "jump into".

Cheers,
Rob

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