strawberry perl updates

[BernieC]

I noticed that the latest Strawberry Perl "recommended version is strawberry-perl-5.32.1.1-64bit.msi. I checked and my perl-v says "This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread". So I downloaded the update and its only option when I ran it was "repair" and I let it do its thing. And after its completing the update I did another "perl -v" and still said the same thing. Should I have expected to have changed to 5.32.1.1 or is it OK that it didn't

[pryrt]

strawberry perl typically adds another .1 to the end of the actual perl version for their bundle's version. So "perl 5.32.1" is bundled as a strawberry installer or zip with "5.32.1.1"

I was going to direct you to https://strawberryperl.com/releases.html to see their release names over time (and to check myself if they'd ever done a .2 or higher suffix), but they appear to be down right now.

Fortunately, their whois says they've got another year before their domain expires. I put in an issue on their website github, but given their lack of updates over the past years, I don't know if they have anyone who will get their website working again.

But since I was at their github for the website, I looked at releases.html and found that yes, they have both 5.26.0.1 and 5.26.0.2 (for example), so they occasionally do uprev their sub-minor revision. Oh, and looking at their release-notes source folder, there was apparently a patched perl.h for the 5.26.0.2 version.

But the short version: if perl -V is reporting 5.32.1, then the 5.32.1.1 bundle is the bundle that provides that.

[pryrt]

Their website is back up now. It was just a temporary issue

[Athanasius]

Hello BernieC,

Try perl -V (that’s an upper case V) and you should see something like this:

 1:30 >perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 32 subversion 1) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32
    osvers=10.0.19042.746
    archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.32.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 24 15:00:15 2021 
+x64'
    ...

which shows exactly what’s installed.

Hope that helps,

[BernieC]

Thanks very much!! I didn't know about "perl -V" {what a giant amount of information :o) } and indeed,

uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.32.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 24 15:00:15 2021 x64'

I'm a bit dismayed that it sounds like Strawberry Perl may be going away. I used to use Activestate, years ago, but for some reason I decided I didn't like it so much {it's been so long that I forget what my issue was with it}. Is there a third alternative for windows Perl?

[rwp]

> what a giant amount of information

In theory, you could also use perl -V:uname to derive just that string.

But it didn't work for me though the other variables from perl -V do.

Strange.

[Corion]

I think the last .1 in the version number is the Strawberry release number, so you had (and have) installed the first Strawberry release of Perl 5.32.1.