Hi Mark, Mark Dootson wrote: > Padre PPM's are now available for > > MSWin - Perl 5.10 / 5.8 > Linux - Perl 5.10 > MacOSX - Perl 5.10 > > Not that PPM's are such a big deal, Padre being pure Perl, but the > repositories do provide working portable wxWidgets binaries for > > Linux - glibc 2.5+ > > MacOSX - 10.4/10.5/10.6 ppc & intel > > so it is a quick way to take a look at Padre.
I think it *is* a big deal that you made these available. Thank you very much! By the way, I think our single biggest barrier of entry for MacOSX is that their stupid system perl is unthreaded. Why Apple made that silly choice is beyond me, but it's not going to change. Thus, for true out-of-the-box experience on MacOS, we'll need someone to create a sort of Padre-standalone including a threaded perl as a .dmg. I suppose your PPMs were made with a threaded perl? If so, maybe they could form a base for building such a package akin to how Curtis uses .par's of wx and similar large modules to keep the rebuilding time of a Strawberry Perl release down. (Note: PPMs can also be converted to .par's using PAR::Dist::FromPPM.) I'm trying to say that you, Mark, need to do this, by the way. :) > The URL to point someone at is > > http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/ppm-repository.html > > There are 3 problems folks might face when installing Padre from PPM > > 1) All platforms - you must install the ppm for Debug::Client before > Padre. Why this dependency does not work and the other 82 do, I don't > know. (it is purely a ppm problem on my part - nothing to do with the > modules themselves). Maybe I'll figure out the problem - but not yet. Odd. Is it listed in the PPM's dependency meta information? > 2) MSWin - the PPM package manager will load the ActiveState Wx by > default - which will prevent users from using any other xs based modules > from my site - reason is ActiveState build using VC6. I don't as I use > many of the recent graphic features in wxWidgets - which aren't > available in the ActiveState built version (cannot be built with VC6). > You cannot mix MinGW and VC6 within Wx. > So - if you want the extra xs modules, install the Wx PPM specifically > from the http://www.wxperl.co.uk site before you install Padre That'll probably be necessary. I believe Padre is a bit on the cutting edge as far as the required Wx version goes. Though it probably doesn't use as many of the advanced widgets as other programs. > Hope this helps you spread the word. I certainly will! Best regards, Steffen _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
