On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Blanc <[email protected]> wrote: > This is awesome. I don't care if Perl isn't the trendy web language, > because as far as I can tell all of the trendy web stuff is worthless > anyway, but I think it's a great language for gluing together an > operating system. I enjoy Windows but tend to use it through a mixture > of the CLI and Perl, simply because GUIs are inherently inefficient > for many (but not every) task. I would suggest a focus on how to > integrate Perl with the Windows interface, e.g. adding to right-click > menus, drag-n-drop, automated changes to Windows config/registry and > making common scripts easily available. There's also a lot of > web-based stuff that Perl is useful for, such as removing 80-column > line breaks in Windows txt files and converting Linux or Macintosh > (ewwww) text files to Windows format.
I developed commercially for windows perl for a few years, so you can ask me in the meetings. You need basically libwin, Win32::GUI, Par::Dist and a nice installer. I used mainly the NSIS installer http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ With Win32::GUI you can develop much nicer native windows apps than with any other language: python, php, tcl, vbasic, tcl, java, lisp, lua, ruby, ... Both activeperl and strawberry are fine. For true compilations via perlcc instead of Par you need a patched or a recent perl. This is only for hardcore devs. _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
