Re: Does Old=Bad?

["Mark Beihoffer" <markbeihoffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck Calabro wrote:

Does Microsoft do the porting/testing/integration for
>Windows?

Actually, the MS port of Perl, ActivePerl, is maintained by ActiveState, but 
with a significant financial investment by Microsoft to make sure it works 
with all versions of Windows.

I see what you're getting at, though.

>Does Sun do it for Solaris?

Don't know...

If I remember rightly, the port is
>done by Perl fans and isn't "supported" by any vendor.  Did I 
>misunderstand?

No, you didn't misunderstand. But many of the tools in QShell on the AS/400, 
for instance, were also developed by Unix fans, and yet IBM considers that 
to be important enough to port. I guess I'm just frustrated by the 
surprising lack of portability to the AS/400.

-Mark
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