I think the software maintenance and the tracking of enhancements to wxWidgets will be the hardest of the tasks, mostly because those tasks seem to require "internals" knowledge. I certainly don't have any current experience in that area. A software maintenance manual maybe would open this area up to more people. The flavors of Perl and the Win/Mac/Linux platforms lead to a lot of combinations.
I don't have a feel for the size of the wxPerl audience or the distribution of experience from beginner to package maintainer. James On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Steve Cookson - gmail < steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mehmet, > > Thanks for your email. > > James' list does indeed look intimidating, but I hope once we start the > momentum will build. > > Wx and Alien::Widgets are not abandoned, they are just under-resourced. > > Here is a list of recent updates at sourceforge: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/wxperl/code/HEAD/tree/ > > We here are all the maintainers. If we don't like something we fix it in > our own environments and post it here. Mark will migrate it to the various > repositories. > > We have had almost as much activity on the list in January 2016 than in > the whole of 2015. Long may it continue! > > I don't have a Mac, but maybe I can help you with your installation > problems. Are you still getting the same error? Ie "No wxWidgets build > found.". > > Please remind us how you are installing. The purpose of Alien::wxWidgets > is to install wxWidgets in a selected directory and then point wxPerl to > it. There is normally a configuration file or environment variable that > will point wxPerl (ie Wx) to the right directory. > > Please post your current status and I'll try to help you. > > Regards > > Steve. > > > On 12/01/16 17:53, Mehmet Kayaalp wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, James Lynes <jmlyne...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > wxPerl Language Support > > Bug Fixes(Mark & ?) > > I was looking for a proper pigeon hole to place my support request wrt > wxPerl for Win-64 on ActivePerl > <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2016/01/msg9577.html>. > On the main wiki page, I found links to two support pages, Wx > <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Wx> and > Alien::wxWidgets > <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Alien-wxWidgets>, at > cpan, but they are not maintained. > > 41678 <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41678> *Can't build on > OpenBSD perl 5.10 wxWidgets 2.8.7 > <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41678>* open Critical 6 years > ago 0.40 > 0.41 > 0.42 Maintainers of both sites are listed as MBARBON > <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=MBARBON>, and > MDOOTSON <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=MDOOTSON> > . > Clearly they abandoned the effort, or that is the impression I get from > outside. > Does anyone willing to take responsibility to maintain these pages? > > As I understand from you discussions, there is a new on-going reformation > attempt. > James' list is a good plan but it also seems overwhelming to approach, > unless there is a prioritization in place. > I would suggest assigning a high priority to making the existing software > work on the current platforms with the latest versions of Perl/ActivePerl. > > My two cents. > > >
