Oren, You are on point once again. My best experience with Padre installation was installing from msi file and doing a cpan upgrade ( although for beginners this step should be automated by having a feature to install a current version or a packaged installer of the current version).
Thanks for sharing your experience. Charlie Gonzalez On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Oren Maurer <meor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not one of the "heavy coders" of Padre, but I'm sure that many > people here will be happy to see your last note. > Thanks for "spreading the word" - this is wonderful. > > Regarding the packaging of Padre with Strawberry, > Well... I think that this is necessary for MS-Windows, but not for Linux / > BSD. > This is the reason - I guess - for making the "MSI" package that > installs Strawberry+Padre on MS-Windows. > IMHO - the simplest way for Padre on MS-Windows is to install this > package - and then upgrade Padre inside the Strawberry environment, > using CPAN. > This is what I do on the MS-Windows PC that I have at work. > > On my home laptop and PC I have Linux (currently Ubuntu and ArchLinux). > Usually - Linux (and *BSD) already come with Perl. > So no need for Strawberry Perl in a usual Linux / *BSD. > > And... in fact using Strawberry Perl on MS-Windows is very good for > developers (I really love it) but it's not a "must". > Padre can be installed on MS-Windows - also with ActiveState Perl. > > On my work PC I have two Padre installations - one on ActiveState Perl > environment, and other one on Strawberry Perl environment. Both live > together. > > But I use the one from Strawberry. > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Charlie Gonzalez <itchar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Oren, > > > > You are correct. I forgot to mention that I spoke about the fact that I > had to do a memory upgrade from 1 gig to 2 gigs and that I had a few memory > issues while installing Strawberry Perl and Padre on my netbook with 1 gig > ram. I used this example to argue the fact that Padre and Strawberry Perl > needs to be packaged with the latest version of Padre to avoid time consumed > on installing both. > > > > PC with greater processing power than a netbook are ideal candidates for > installing Padre. > > > > I am considering to work on a User Manual for Padre but I need to spend > some time looking at the docs that are available to formulate a list of > questions before I begin. > > > > FYI my presentation has inspired many of my coworkers to install and > consider working with Padre. Thanks again for building such a wonderful IDE > for Perl. > > > > Charlie G > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Oren Maurer <meor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Charlie > >> The presentation looks very nice! > >> Really! > >> Just a small comment regarding the time that of installing Padre on > MS-Windows: > >> I guess that first of all it's a question of memory and CPU. > >> AFAIK - the Asus EEE PCs are designed to be lightweight and small > laptops - also in memory... mainly for running Web browser and Office. > >> Compiling on it will surely take longer then on larger laptop. > >> And - as far as I know - installing Padre directly from CPAN does > require compilation (of Wx). > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Zeno Gantner <zeno.gant...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello Charlie, > >>> > >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Charlie Gonzalez < > itchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > I have conducted a presentation in regards to my user experience of > Padre. > >>> > This presentation was done in the NY Perl Seminar Group yesterday > and below > >>> > is a url to the slides. (CC'ed in this email is Jim Keenan the > moderator of > >>> > NY Perl Seminar Group). > >>> > > >>> > http://www.slideshare.net/CharlieGonzalez2/padre-user-experience > >>> > > >>> > This presentation was mainly focused on the user perspective of the > Padre > >>> > application. A demo of Padre was also done at the end of the > presentation. > >>> > >>> Thank you very much for presenting Padre, and also for sharing the > >>> slides with us. > >>> > >>> > I want to inquire about any present efforts on producing a training > book on > >>> > how to use Padre. Is there an effort to do this and if so how can one > >>> > contribute? > >>> > >>> Currently, all Padre documentation is in the form of POD in the Padre > >>> source files, plus some content on the wiki and in blog posts. > >>> Very recently, there has been some effort to document Padre's features > >>> in detail in the wiki: http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/Features > >>> > >>> So no, there is currently no user manual in the form of a book. > >>> If you want, you can start one - the feature list would of course be a > >>> good starting point. > >>> I would be willing to contribute, but I am hesitant to lead the thing > >>> because my free time for Padre is currently quite limited. > >>> > >>> If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask them here in the list or > on IRC. > >>> > >>> As said, sharing your experience is very valuable to us. > >>> For instance, I did not know that installing a current Padre takes 1.5 > >>> hours on Windows! > >>> This is actually quite sad, we should definitely do something about > this. > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> Zeno > >>> -- > >>> MyMediaLite Recommender System Library: http://ismll.de/mymedialite > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Padre-dev mailing list > >>> Padre-dev@perlide.org > >>> http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ________________________________ > >> Oren Maurer > >> http://oren.maurer.org.il > >> http://meorero.wordpress.com > >> _______________________________ > >> # =======================| > >> # Please avoid sending me Word | > >> # or PowerPoint attachments | > >> # =======================| > >> # See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Padre-dev mailing list > >> Padre-dev@perlide.org > >> http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Padre-dev mailing list > > Padre-dev@perlide.org > > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > > > > > -- > ________________________________ > Oren Maurer > http://oren.maurer.org.il > http://meorero.wordpress.com > _______________________________ > # =======================| > # Please avoid sending me Word | > # or PowerPoint attachments | > # =======================| > # See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev >
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