On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Roode, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but what IS Padre?
Padre is Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment It is a text editor with an oversized ego ;-) > Is it simply a text editor geared toward Perl? If so, what is it > storing in the SQLite database? Or does it have more features > than simply text editing (even if the features are still only in the > planning stage)? Is it more of an IDE? Does it (will it) include > a debugger? A GUI designer? It will include a debugger. It will include at least a simple GUI designer. (There are probably some better ones out there). It will include a test runner with a gui to see TAP. As it is written in Perl, it will include anything you will be ready to code too. The SQLite db is used mainly for the podreader. Padre currently can index (the names of) all the modules on your system and it was planned to have a search capability for modules/functions/etc. Recently I heard from Herbert that there is a GSOC project creating a podreader in Wx so it might be better to integrate with that than to improve the one currently in Padre. > I went to CPAN and looked over the doco and the main module > source code.... and I don't know whether I should download > it to check it out. What's it got that is interesting? It is very early in the development but you can already use it. It is still weaker than almost any editor but I hope some of you ppl will like the idea to have a portable IDE for Perl and will help me out with the project. Gabor
