On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:33:26AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
Could it be possible to create a Standard library for perl6, which
would also include graphical primitives (putpixel, getpixel,
getcolordepth, putimage, getimage, copyrectangle)?
I'm interested in creating a perl6 binding to cairo
Markus Laire wrote:
I'm not completely sure if it would be worth the trouble to support only
most primitive graphical commands in core, (no windows, etc..), and
leave the rest to the modules (or to the programmer).
To a large extent, I'd want to leave most details to modules, etc. But
what
On 10/14/05, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl does have CPAN, but the problem is that there are no standard
modules, and so there can be several modules doing the same thing.
And what is the problem with that?
For example, some of the modules for graphics you get to choose from
are
On 10/15/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/14/05, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl does have CPAN, but the problem is that there are no standard
modules, and so there can be several modules doing the same thing.
And what is the problem with that?
The problem may be
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 12:45 -0500, Bryan Burgers wrote:
What I find exciting about parrot is that (it sounds like to me)
you'll be able to run a perl6 file anywhere that has parrot, much like
Java. I think what Markus is getting at is for there to be a way to
display graphics through parrot
(I'm mainly interested about graphical primitives, but there are likely
other areas where standard library would be of use.)
If I want to write a crossplatform text-mode application, I could write
it in perl, and know that it will be usable in wide variety of
platforms, as long as I use only
