Perl

Version: 
5.16.1
Release date: 
Thursday, 20 February, 1992

License:

Interface:

Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language.

This software is distributed in two modes:
  • as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
  • as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.
Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.

Installation with rpm

This program is installable using the rpm package manager. See below for the install string. Required prerequisites are automatically processed by the package manager and, if needed, downloaded and installed.

perl-HTTP-Parser-3.83-1.oc00 (07/04/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
Change history for HTML-Parser 3.83 2024-07-30 - fix '$\/]' in HTML::Entities::encode_entities (GH#45) (mauke) ----------------------- changelog * Mon Apr 07 2025 - 3.83-1 - update to version 3.83
perl-HTTP-Parser-tests-3.83-1.oc00 (07/04/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
  • install with ANPM or running the command:
    yum install perl-HTTP-Parser-tests
perl-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
NAME perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.16.0 release and the 5.16.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.14.0, first read perl5160delta, which describes differences between 5.14.0 and 5.16.0. Security an off-by-two error in Scalar-List-Util has been fixed The bugfix was in Scalar-List-Util 1.23_04, and perl 5.16.1 includes Scalar-List-Util 1.25. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0 If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See "Reporting Bugs" below. Modules and Pragmata Updated Modules and Pragmata * Scalar::Util and List::Util have been upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.25. * B::Deparse has been updated from version 1.14 to 1.14_01. An "uninitialized" warning emitted by B::Deparse has been squashed [perl #113464]. Configuration and Compilation * Building perl with some Windows compilers used to fail due to a problem with miniperl's "glob" operator (which uses the "perlglob" program) deleting the PATH environment variable [perl #113798]. Platform Support Platform-Specific Notes VMS All C header files from the top-level directory of the distribution are now installed on VMS, providing consistency with a long-standing practice on other platforms. Previously only a subset were installed, which broke non-core extension builds for extensions that depended on the missing include files. Selected Bug Fixes * A regression introduced in Perl v5.16.0 involving "tr/*SEARCHLIST*/*REPLACEMENTLIST*/" has been fixed. Only the first instance is supposed to be meaningful if a character appears more than once in "*SEARCHLIST*". Under some circumstances, the final instance was overriding all earlier ones. [perl #113584] * "B::COP::stashlen" has been added. This provides access to an internal field added in perl 5.16 under threaded builds. It was broken at the last minute before 5.16 was released [perl #113034]. * The re pragma will no longer clobber $_. [perl #113750] * Unicode 6.1 published an incorrect alias for one of the Canonical_Combining_Class property's values (which range between 0 and 254). The alias "CCC133" should have been "CCC132". Perl now overrides the data file furnished by Unicode to give the correct value. * Duplicating scalar filehandles works again. [perl #113764] * Under threaded perls, a runtime code block in a regular expression could corrupt the package name stored in the op tree, resulting in bad reads in "caller", and possibly crashes [perl #113060]. * For efficiency's sake, many operators and built-in functions return the same scalar each time. Lvalue subroutines and subroutines in the CORE:: namespace were allowing this implementation detail to leak through. "print &CORE::uc("a"), &CORE::uc("b")" used to print "BB". The same thing would happen with an lvalue subroutine returning the return value of "uc". Now the value is copied in such cases [perl #113044]. * "__SUB__" now works in special blocks ("BEGIN", "END", etc.). * Formats that reference lexical variables from outside no longer result in crashes. Known Problems There are no new known problems, but consult "Known Problems" in perl5160delta to see those identified in the 5.16.0 release. Acknowledgements Perl 5.16.1 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.16.0 and contains approximately 14,000 lines of changes across 96 files from 8 authors. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.16.1: Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Father Chrysostomos, Karl Williamson, Paul Johnson, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Tony Cook. The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker. Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish. For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution. Reporting Bugs If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page. If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of "perl -V", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team. If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN. SEE ALSO The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed. The INSTALL file for how to build Perl. The README file for general stuff. The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ changelog * Mon Mar 26 2025 5.16.1-11 - use ther right tag to build
perl-IO-Compress-2.048-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-core-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-libs-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-devel-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable (note: development files, not needed by the end user)
perl-tests-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-debuginfo-5.16.1-11.oc00 (26/03/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.048-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
  • install with ANPM or running the command:
    yum install perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.25-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
  • install with ANPM or running the command:
    yum install perl-Scalar-List-Utils
perl-Data-Dumper-2.135.06-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Digest-MD5-2.51-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Digest-SHA-5.71-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Filter-1.40-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-PathTools-3.39.2-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.048-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
  • install with ANPM or running the command:
    yum install perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
perl-Time-Piece-1.20.1-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Socket-2.001-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
perl-threads-1.86-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-threads-shared-1.40-11.oc00 (12/02/2025)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-macros-5.16.1-11.oc00 (20/09/2021)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-File-HomeDir-1.004-3.oc00 (28/10/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-File-Which-1.22-1.oc00 (27/10/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-UNIVERSAL-isa-1.20171012-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-SQL-Statement-1.412-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-DBD-CSV-0.53-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Text-CSV_XS-1.37-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-DB_File-1.842-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-DBI-1.641-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-DBI-Coro-1.641-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-FreezeThaw-0.5001-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-MLDBM-2.05-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Math-Base-Convert-0.11-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
  • install with ANPM or running the command:
    yum install perl-Math-Base-Convert
perl-Config-Tiny-2.23-1.oc00 (28/09/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Try-Tiny-0.30-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Devel-CheckLib-1.11-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable (note: development files, not needed by the end user)
perl-Font-TTF-1.06-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.13-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-IO-String-1.08-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-HTTP-Negotiate-6.01-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Sort-Versions-1.62-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-HTTP-Cookies-6.04-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-XML-Parser-2.44-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-WWW-RobotRules-6.02-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.03-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-NTLM-1.09-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-File-Listing-6.04-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-libwww-perl-6.32-2.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Net-HTTP-6.17-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.84-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-Mozilla-CA-20160104-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.056-1.oc00 (04/04/2018)
Repository: Netlabs stable

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Online documentation:

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Perl v. 5.8.8 (22/4/2025, Oliver Cremer) Readme/What's new
Perl v5.8.8 from Paul Smedley as WPI-Package. Requires kLIBC Runtime 0.6.1 (libc061.dll) for example in the pakage libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi. This WPI-Package uses kLIBC Pathrewriter, if present, klibccfg.wpi. From Oliver Cremer/Paul Smedley.
 www.os2site.com/sw/dev/perl/5.8.8/perl588_wpi.zip
Perl v. 5.16.0 (6/8/2019, KO Myung-Hun)
 www.hobbesarchive.com/Hobbes/pub/os2/dev/proglang/perl/Perl_5-16-0k2.zip
Perl v. 5.16.0 (23/1/2017, KO Myung-Hun) Readme/What's new
v5.16.0-k1: * Based on Perl v5.16.0 of Paul Smedley * Fixed rmtree() sometimes failed * Fixed install_lib.pl failed * Fixed system 1(P_NOWAIT) returned a wrong value not a pid of a child * Fixed [git add -p] show stair output * Fixed "Can't do inplace edit without backup" when -i was used with no extension * Support to pass a very long command line via a response file * Support to read a response file regardless a line length * Support to allocate in high-memory area * See readme.os2 for explanations of Paul Smedley
 www.os2site.com/sw/dev/perl/5.16.x/perl-5.16.0-k1.zip
Perl v. 5.14.2 (5/1/2012, Paul Smedley (Smedles))
 dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76425158/perl-5.14.2-os2-20120105.zip
Perl v. 5.8.8 (12/2/2007, Paul Smedley (Smedles)) Readme/What's new
Perl 5.8.8 Perl Facts * Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. * It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. * Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL). * Perl was created by Larry Wall. * Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987 * PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category. * Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. Perl Features * Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others. * Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others. * Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages. * Perl supports Unicode. * Perl is Y2K compliant. * Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming. * Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG. * Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). * The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems. Perl 5.8.8 - updated 20070212 - needs libc061.dll Release Notes: 1) built with libc06 CSD1 so libc061.dll is required - this can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip 2) All bug reports should be submitted via the bug tracker at http://mantis.smedley.info See the COPYING file for details on the Perl license Note that this build of Perl is coded to look in u:/perl/lib for its libraries. If your Perl is installed somewhere else, you need to set an environment variable to tell Perl the install location, ie: set PERLIB_PREFIX=u:/perl/lib;x:/path/to/perl/lib I am VERY interested in feedback on this release - I've been using it to run SpamAssassin for the last month or so with no problems. If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please consider donating via PayPal via the link in the footer at http://smedley.info/os2ports or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports Cheers, Paul Smedley Adelaide, Australia 12th February, 2007
 www.os2site.com/sw/dev/perl/5.8.8/perl-5.8.8-os2.zip
Perl v. 5.8.0 (24/2/2003, Henry Sobotka)
 www.os2site.com/sw/dev/perl/5.8/perl-5.8.0-bin.zip
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