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From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab@gmail.com> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Octavian Râsnita<orasnita@gmail.com> wrote: > From: "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab@gmail.com> >> >> As in many of the project the core developers >> are usually more Linux/OSX people and the beginners will tend to be more >> Windows people, one will have to go the extra miles and explain in terms >> that make sense on windows. If done correctly and documents are generated >> from these explanations then the second or third beginner will already >> have all the info pointed out in a document or on a wiki. > > It is also important that the programs should also run fine under Windows. > Unfortunately it is not the case of Padre anymore. > > I've tried to install Padre using the CPAN shell but it gave very many > errors, including tens of error windows like: > > perl.exe - Unable To Locate Component > This application has failed to start because wxbase28u_gcc_wxperl.dll was > not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. > OK > > (I use ActivePerl 5.10.0 under Win XP). > > Octavian You never told us about this problem. Actually currently Windows is most beginner friendly platform for Padre and Padre has an installer on Windows. It currently brings a whole Strawberry Perl with it and it needs to be the only perl on the system but there are plans to create a version that would hide the fact that it is in Perl and would work well together with any other Perl on the system. Gabor ** Aha, I understand. This might be the issue. I use ActivePerl and not Strawberry. I've tried Strawberry Perl but I found very many modules I couldn't install with it, the PPM under that distro of Perl has less features than ActiveState's one, I also need ActiveState PDK that also requires ActivePerl, so... OctavianThread Previous | Thread Next