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I've been the current maintainer of Win32::API for some years now. I am proud to be working on such a useful module, at least for Windows people. I even managed once to build it under Linux/winegcc.

Lately, I've been receiving user requests about porting it to 64-bit architectures. While this is something I want to do, I might have some problems. Mainly, my lack of knowledge about porting 32-bit stuff to 64-bits under Windows. Luckily, there seems to be available information and enough interested users that can provide help, code, hardware and/or licenses.

So, if you are in any way interested in helping out or staying tuned on the 64-bit port of Win32::API, please join the libwin32 mailing list. I'm going to post some more details there.

alexe writes "Opener Chat is a kind of multi-user and multi-protocol online communication software which is like Pidgin (gaim).

Opener Chat is completely programmed by Perl which consists of the graphical interface part and net part. Now we use the module of win32::GUI to carry its interface into effect, so this software can only run on the win32 platform. This software which is easy to operate supports server address of configuration, clients’ log-in name, group or private chatting, program update, remote assisted function and chat records. Opener Chat suits internal talk of small and medium enterprises or the Internet community. Adopting IRC protocol and using IRC service of freenode.net can avoid difficulties of establishing chat server by yourself.

It is an open source software and no advertisement adds in. Besides, it occupies less resource and has greater extensibility."

"Are these names considered to be a public non-changeable interface by virtue of having been placed in these directories for a while, even though they were never documented as far as I can tell? Or are these files considered to be an internal implementation detail of Perl, not for external use, and hence subject to change or deletion?" -- Karl Williamson, waging war on two fronts simultaneously, Perl and Unicode.

The Perl 6 Design Team met by phone on 07 January 2009. Larry, Jerry, Allison, Patrick, Jesse, and chromatic attended.