Visual Perl

ActiveState ends development of dynamic language plug-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio

ActiveState has announced the end of engineering support for Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT, effective immediately.

The plug-ins will not be updated for Visual Studio 2005, and there will be no further maintenance on the Visual Studio 2003- and 2002-compatible versions. Due to the necessary inclusion of Visual Studio integration code in Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT, the plug-ins cannot be open-sourced.

We are committed to working with our customers to minimize any inconvenience that may result from this decision. To that end, ActiveState will:

a) at customer's request, replace each commercial plug-in license with a license for Komodo Professional Edition, and each educational plug-in license with a license for Komodo Personal Edition;*

* Please note, we can no longer offer replacement licenses, as we no longer offer Komodo Professional or Personal. Pricing for Komodo IDE and our other products is available at our store.

b) provide unlimited licenses for the current 2003/2002 plug-ins;

c) continue to host the installable software for Visual Studio 2003 and 2002, via FTP;

d) continue to offer installation and configuration support through June 15, 2006; and

e) continue to host the visualperl-discuss, visualpython-discuss, and visual-xslt-discuss mailing lists.

Existing customers are encouraged to contact us for further details.