The Fight to Download Perl :-(
Hi Folks
Enter complaint mode...
If I go to The Perl Foundation and search that page (I'm using Chrome) for the word download, there is 1 instance, and no, it's not a link. WTF?
If on that page I click on 'Perl 5 wiki' it takes me to The Perl 5 Wiki, and on that page a search for download finds 0 instances. WTF?
If I go to The Perl Programming Language
it says the latest version is 5.14.0. WTF?
And no, I don't need to be told it's available on CPAN.
Beginners need to be told it's available, from everywhere vaguely appropriate.
Here endith the complaints.
Despite all that, I continue to find it an astonishingly productive language.
I try to write all code in Perl, but find I end up writing in bash, CSS, HTML, JS, and SQL, and doing database design, just to get anything done...
While I see your point about TPF and the wiki pages, the very first thing you see on perl.org is a big "DOWNLOAD PERL" link. What's wrong with that?
https://github.com/ranguard/installing-perl/
I'm trying to make it easier to do just this.
This will be linked to from learn.perl.org (which I'm working on), and possibly www.perl.org
I'd really like a lot more testing and feedback from anyone (as issus on github if possible please) would be really appreciated.
I have made the word "download" a link on the TPF homepage, made Perl 5 a link to the download page, and also added a new menu item for "Download Perl". I know that we could do more than this, so I'll pass this to our marketing committee. Thanks for pointing this out.