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 can not be
open-sourced.

Our decision to discontinue these products was driven by the
disproportionately large development effort required to keep them in sync
with Visual Studio. Despite an avid user base, customer demand did not reach
levels required to fund ongoing development.

We are committed to working with our customers to miminize 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;

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) 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 on ASPN.

Existing customers are encouraged to contact Sales@[...].com for
further details.



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