Hi all, I was talking to the Hannover.PM guys about Padre yesterday. All of them are professional Perl developers and here are their complains:
--- Padre isn't installable on MacOS --- Oliver Krüger has been at our CeBit booth and we already failed to run Padre on his Mac at this time because of the Perl threading issue on Mac. I'm no Mac user and don't know much about Mac packages but we should really try to set up a working installation package for Mac which is as easy to use as "cpan Padre". I think someone somewhere recently wrote that a .dmg is just a tar archive. Why not create a standalone .dmg which contains a threaded WxPerl and Padre? --- Padre standalone --- Many of the developers were using Debian without any directly installed CPAN modules, only Debian packages are allowed at their company (all of them were from the same company :-) ). The Padre standalone is 0.55 and contains some bugs and issues which have been fixed since then. It "didn't work" at all at the guy who tried it but we didn't talk about detais. He said that he'd try it again before our next meeting. Creating these packages can't be too complicated. Why not create some kind of triggerable job (by the release manager) or cronjob which... 1. Unpacks a prebuild runtime environment (= Perl binary & basic directory structure, maybe some dependency packages) in a temp dir 2. Installs Padre including dependencies from CPAN 3. Creates a distribution tarball/.dbm/whatever (depending on the environment used in the first step) These files might also be checked by automated tests and could be put on the website as a "release-ly automated build". If they're ok (= running and no/few/fixed reported problems), they could easily be moved to the main download page. Sebastian _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
