Low reactivity in the update of ActivePerl ?

From: Stéphane Lepolozec (s.lepolozec_at_free.fr)
Date: 12/09/04 

To: dbi-users@perl.org
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:23:38 +0100

Want excuse me for the brutal manner to say the things but it seems me to
notice a rather low reactivity in the update of ActivePerl since the
absorption of ActiveState by Sophos. A certain number of modules are not up
to date any more and not the least as DBD::MySQL which remains blocked with
version 2.9003 (26 oct 2003) on PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/
(ASPN) whereas one finds the v2.9004 (13 jul 2004) on
http://search.cpan.org/~rudy/DBD-mysql-2.9004/ (CPAN) - version necessary to
exploit MySQL v4.1.7 fully (new system of coding of the passwords).

A new version of ActivePerl it is planned soon, very soon?
ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-MSWin32-x86 dates from June 17, 2004 and one new
version v5.8.6 is available since November 27, 2004; the 5.8.5 is since July
19, 2004...

Does it act of a change of policy ?
If such is the case, that is regrettable bus ActivePerl is the best
distribution for Windows...

Regards