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Perl Dev Kit 8

Fly solo or as part of a team with PDK 8's cross-platform deployment and improved features for team development

• Code that conforms: Using PerlCritic, you and your whole team can code to best standards, industry standards, or your own customized standards. Entirely customizable PerlCritic allows you to run defined policies against your source code.
• Create on any platform, deploy to any platform: PerlApp makes it easy to bundle source code and modules into executables for distribution. And now, with cross-platform wrapping, you can develop executables in one environment and deploy to any platform. PerlApp includes application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
• Enhancements and goodies: PDK 8 includes a comprehensive feature set for Perl developers, including PerlApp, Coverage Analyzer, Filter Builder, VBScript Converter, Graphical Debugger, PerlMSI, PerlCtrl, PerlNET, PerlCritic, PerlSvc, and PerlTray.

See how PDK has evolved:

• PDK 8.1: Support for Perl 5.10 new syntax constructs

  PDK 8.1 also includes the following bug fixes:

  • PerlApp --dyndll option fixed for code to run on Windows 2000
  • PerlApp --target option now works with ActivePerl 826 and 1006
  • PerlApp GUI saves values of --manifest option in project file
  • --manifest option also supported by PerlCtrl/PerlNET/PerlSvc/PerlTray
• PDK 8.0: PerlCritic and Cross-Platform Wrapping

  Enhancements to PerlApp, including cross-platform wrapping for any-platform deployment. PerlCritic added, allowing end users to run policies against source code to ensure coding standards (best practice, industry, or personally configured) are followed.
• PDK 7.3: Improved heuristics

  New --warnings option will display all warnings produced during a build without showing all the included files that --verbose does, as well as enhanced heuristics.
  
• PDK 7.2: PerlNETsupport

  PerlNet enhancements and updates.
• PDK 7.1: Perl 5.10 support

  All tools included in PDK 7.1 support ActivePerl 5.8 and 5.10
• PDK 7.0: Hotspots and new Platforms

  PerlCov tool added for analyzing code coverage and hotspots in Perl programs and test suites. Mac OS X; 64-bit support for Windows (x64), Linux (x64) and Solaris (Sparc) support added. Various PerlApp improvements and enhancements included with release.
• PDK 6.0: Goodies Galore

  FilterBuilder, VBScript Converter, Graphical Interface, Dynamic DLL Loader and Shared Libarary Options added.

For an extensive history of PDK, you can read the release notes here.

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Upgrade Paths

Upgrading to PDK is easy:

• From PDK Pro 7.3 $145 
• From PDK Pro Pack 6.x $195
• From PDK Deployment Tools* 7.x $195

• To ActivePerl Pro Studio: ActivePerl Pro Studio includes Komodo IDE plus PDK and Safari Books Online, plus all upgrades for one year, in a single value-priced bundle.
  • With previous PDK or Komodo IDE: $295
  •  As a new purchase: $495

• All current ActivePerl Pro Studio active subscribers are entitled to a free upgrade to PDK 8. Install the free upgrade to 8 through My Account.

* PDK Deployment Tools and Productivity Tools are no longer sold separately: all PDK 8 licenses include the complete suite of PDK tools.