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PerlCom Replacements
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| VBSome 2004-12-07, 4:02 pm |
| PerlCom used to be the tool to expose Perl to COM.
ActiveState no longer maintains or sells it.
I have talked to ActiveState Tech Support and they say the only other option
I have is to use PerlCtrl, which converts a perl script to an ActiveX
control. I have about a 100 scripts that change almost w ly. I really do
not want to have to create a new control every time I need to make a minor
change to one of my scripts.
Are there any replacements out there for PerlCom ??
Thanks!
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| Andrew Hamm 2004-12-07, 8:56 pm |
| VBSome wrote:
> PerlCom used to be the tool to expose Perl to COM.
> ActiveState no longer maintains or sells it.
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> I have talked to ActiveState Tech Support and they say the only other
> option I have is to use PerlCtrl, which converts a perl script to an
> ActiveX control. I have about a 100 scripts that change almost
> wly. I really do not want to have to create a new control every
> time I need to make a minor change to one of my scripts.
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> Are there any replacements out there for PerlCom ??
Are there no modules on CPAN? I have never used COM but surely someone
else has independently made a tool.
Was PerlCom based on an open source effort, or was it proprietry from
Active State? If open source, how do you feel about building it yourself
from the (presumably) free source?
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| VBSome 2004-12-08, 3:57 am |
| > Are there no modules on CPAN? I have never used COM but surely someone
> else has independently made a tool.
So far I've only seen mods to use COM from inside Perl, not Perl from inside
COM
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> Was PerlCom based on an open source effort, or was it proprietry from
> Active State? If open source, how do you feel about building it yourself
> from the (presumably) free source?
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It was proprietary ActiveState stuff. The basically said "sorry don't
support it anymore". Can;t believe nobody else is trying to do the same
thing. They have a "replacement called: PerlCtrl. It builds standalone
ActiveX controls from a Perl script. If I wanted that I would build it in
one of the MS languages to begin with. I want to extend my app with a script
language!
Building it myself? I am good, but not let's build a COM interface for Perl
good *grin*
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