Did ActiveState stop providing plain old MSI installer of Perl for Windows?

Question

I have a Windows 10 PC. I want Perl.

I found the following blog post on theitsite: https://community.activestate.com/t/new-msi-installer-for-activeperl/1626

"New MSI Installer for ActivePerl".

I didn't understand from it how and where should I get an EXE or MSI for Perl? Where is the MSI / EXE?

This page : https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/ lets me use a PowerShell script, but I don't want it.

Should I manage the Windows environment variables myself? I do not need multiple installations. just one.

Answer 1

Well -
I found that there is no MSI, also there is no PPM anymore.

There is - instead - the ActiveState package manager called simply "state".

It is first need to be installed via Windows CMD (Command line) - more exactly - PowerShell.

After this each module is installed via "state install XYZ".

There's a need to sign up for an ActiveState Platform account.

It was change probably in July 2020 - two years ago, between perl 5.26 and Perl 5.28 from them.

I found this blog post: https://community.activestate.com/t/new-msi-installer-for-activeperl/1626 Where ActiveState tell about their new way of installers - as follows:

• [It] is a web-style installer, which will provide a smaller initial download
• Includes the ActiveState Platform command line interface, the State Tool

Thats it for now.

And I managed to have Perl 5.36 from them, at last.