I have a set of about 20 very useful Perl programs, mostly under 2000 lines in size, all coded using Perl 5.8.7, build 813 on a Windows XP machine. I used perl2exe to create executables for these programs.
This was a great setup and some of these programs have been running daily for a several years with no maintenance.
My company just yanked my Windows XP machine out from under me and replaced it with a nice shiny new one running Windows 7. I've read that ActivePerl 5.8.7 build 813 isn't tested for compatability with Win7, so I'm looking at installing ActivePerl 5.16.x and porting all of my old programs to the latest ActivePerl version.
Questions:
- is this too big of a jump, will it require massive rewrites?
- will I still be able to find key modules like DBI and DBD::ODBC I
need to connect to MS Access?
- can 5.16.x code be converted to executables?
I'm not a Perl expert by any means so any insight is welcomed.
