On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> IMHO the Linux port is an afterthought, most of the effort seems to have
> been focused on the Windows side, the integration with Visual Studio
> springs to mind.
umm ... since Linux accounts (at a guess) for 75% of Perl usauge, thats
quite an 'afterthought'. My guess is they see ActiveState Perl as taking
over the world and these tools are simply there to help get it to that
position.
> > I've been through all the frustration I can cope with trying to get
> > various CPAN modules to install with Activestate Perl under windows,
> > waiting for the 'coming real soon' PPM version only to discover it was
> > still not the latest release etc etc. (thinks back to DBI::Proxy under
> > windows ..) I have no intention of extending that experience to Unix :)
>
> Mr Szemeti it seems we have met here before ;)
ahh yes ... :)
> I can't see it taking off that much in the Nix world anyway, for some
> reason IDE's always seem unwelcome (He adds writing this in vi and going
> back to xemacs to code ;))
you can write code in emacs? ... I always thought it was just a news
client ! ( or was it a graphics package .. I forget :)
umm .. sorta. Some IDE's are well liked, Kdevelop for C++ comes to mind,
(which uses gcc ... )
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
