As you all know, we've been trying to pick up and get Strawberry
builds going for a while now. A new Strawberry version hasn't been
officially released since Perl v5.32.
Over the past year, a lot of progress has been made (mostly due to the
efforts of Shawn Laffan).
Thank you, Shawn!!
We look to be near a point now where the build process is well
understood and new builds are going a bit more smoothly.
To that end, Shawn has cut a dev release of Strawberry Perl v5.38:
https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/dev_5380_20230705_gcc13
Please give it a test and put some issues on the GitHub repo if and
when you find problems.
Remaining issues with Strawberry:
* Complete documentation process for the rest of the build (most is
here: https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/spbuild)
* Work out some licensing questions about IF we can still distribute
DBD::Oracle as the client from Oracle has a license that seems suspect
* Gain access to the strawberryperl.com server
* Fix the site to no longer have outdated information
* Fix the hashes for each of the downloads
* Publish the latest releases to the site.
If you can help with any of those tasks, we'd love to have your
assistance! The easiest ways to communicate with us:
* talk with us on irc.perl.org #win32
* start tickets on the strawberry repos
* send me an email
-- Chase
builds going for a while now. A new Strawberry version hasn't been
officially released since Perl v5.32.
Over the past year, a lot of progress has been made (mostly due to the
efforts of Shawn Laffan).
Thank you, Shawn!!
We look to be near a point now where the build process is well
understood and new builds are going a bit more smoothly.
To that end, Shawn has cut a dev release of Strawberry Perl v5.38:
https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/dev_5380_20230705_gcc13
Please give it a test and put some issues on the GitHub repo if and
when you find problems.
Remaining issues with Strawberry:
* Complete documentation process for the rest of the build (most is
here: https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/spbuild)
* Work out some licensing questions about IF we can still distribute
DBD::Oracle as the client from Oracle has a license that seems suspect
* Gain access to the strawberryperl.com server
* Fix the site to no longer have outdated information
* Fix the hashes for each of the downloads
* Publish the latest releases to the site.
If you can help with any of those tasks, we'd love to have your
assistance! The easiest ways to communicate with us:
* talk with us on irc.perl.org #win32
* start tickets on the strawberry repos
* send me an email
-- Chase