[ros-dev] Perl support in ROS

[Adam Kennedy]

Hi there

Just writing to enquire about the current state of Perl support in ROS 
(which I can't find any docs/information on) and to let you know that I 
and a few others are about to release a new non-ActiveState Win32 
distribution of Perl, that is compiled with MinGW and is able to compile 
and install CPAN modules directly, rather than needing ActiveState's PPM 
library.

At the moment I'm just weeding out the last Win32 bugs in the component 
parts of Bundle::CPAN, and awaiting a upgraded file installer that 
supports deleting or overwriting a file that is in use.

With those in we'll release an initial beta, and after that the CPAN 
client should handle upgrading of any problems on the way to a 
production release.

Would there be any interest in trying it out?

Adam K