Hi Troy, I am cc-ing this to the list in case someone else wants to join in, otherwise I guess this is an "off the list" topic. (no one else has commented on this).
I have Golive 5, but didn't invest in 6 because I discovered it didn't do anything for Perl. Is the SDK GL6 specific? I have no idea what knowledge it requires. What does one code in to develop "extensions," so to say? I have no knowledge of anything other than the various scripting languages... I guess I would echo you... "I would be willing to assis if you feel compelled to do something about the status quo". ;-) I also downloaded a trial copy of Dreamweaver... that has a fairly good integration with BBEdit, but is a really slow software... too much overhead for the little bit of it that I really need. Please feel free to continue this thread with me "off the list," especially if you think there is something realistic do-able with GL6 vis a vis Perl coding. Thanks, Puneet. On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 01:18 PM, Troy Davis wrote: > Hi Puneet, > > I use GoLive to create websites. But I use BBEdit to work with perl. > The two can co-exist, but you're right in that they're not very good > roommates. > > I'd love to see a module to replace the php dynamic database stuff > with perl. But somebody would have to adopt that as a personal > project, I doubt Adobe would do it on their own. So while advocacy > might be good, recruiting people to write the code would probably be > better. > > Adobe has an SDK for GoLive. I would be willing to assist if you feel > compelled to do something about the status quo. > > Cheers, > Troy > >> .. >> >> 2. I have a major peeve with the two leading heavyweight web >> development apps... Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 6 and Adobe's Golive >> 6. Both allow working with all manner of server side scripting files >> but not Perl. What's with that? I mean, they even support scripting >> C# and .Net. But when it comes to Perl, no code/syntax highlighting, >> error checking, nothing. Perl scripts are treated like plain dumb >> text. >> >> The reason I need something like Dreamweaver or Golive is because I >> don't want to use my finite braincells remembering syntax for silly >> html for making tables, frames, hex colors, and other such >> stupidities. Doing that nonsense visually makes developing web apps >> tolerable. Even more so when you have to go back and edit some >> convoluted frames and/or tables code. >> >> Would have been great if I could do the visual part as well as the >> perl part. Is their a general impression (at least in the commercial >> world) that perl is moribund? Do they think there are no perl >> programmers on the Mac (they only need come to this list)? >> >> I called Adobe and griped, but that's it. Also posted some questions >> on Macromedia's forums... no bite. Is there need for some advocacy >> here?
