On 24/02/2011 20:09, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I am not sure I understand you. I don't want our user to > install CitrusPerl and then cpan Padre. > > My hope is that we can package Padre + some of the plugins in > a stand alone package that the user can install and use regardless of > which version of Perl she has on the system or if she has any Perl. > (ok in that case Padre will be just a bloated text editor of course). > > For this use case the fact that Padre is written in Perl and that it > comes with its own perl does not matter. > We don't want to use this perl for anything else than running Padre itself.
Ahh - Misunderstanding on my part. Well, Cava is the correct option then. For distributable happiness Claudio has the correct approach. The only thing I would add is to repeat the advice to build on CentOS 5. It will get you the widest possible user base for the package. A question was asked about quickest way to get missing dependencies into Cava. Two ways (other than adding each individually) 1) Create a script with a long list of 'require' lines containing your dependencies. Add it to Cava project as a script. It is never run, but gets scanned for dependencies. 2) Create a global rule for Padre. You probably just need to slurp in all the Perl modules under Padre - and scanning those should pick up the missing deps. I imagine you can more easily script the production of a 'requires' list. Note the facility to run tests against the packaged code. You might like to drop in the existing tests and see which work. Within the next few days I should be releasing Cava with the installer capability. Effectively, this runs an 'installer' executable that gets packaged with your code. By default it packages a pre defined script that just asks for a target location and installs the set desktop / menu items. The source for this default installer will be 'open' so you can take it as a starting point to create your own more sophisticated installer if required. The Padre project also needs the Cava license for distributing an open source project - which you are of course granted - which covers it in total I think. Regards Mark _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
