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Johan Vromans wrote: > Sherm Pendley <sherm@dot-app.org> writes: > >> On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: >> >>> Perl has always sucked at desktop applications, mostly because we >>> can't deliver applications in the same way we do regular things. >> I'm not sure who you're referring to with that "we", but CamelBones >> users have been able to do precisely that on the Mac for a couple of >> years now. Windows and Linux are still catching up - as usual. :-) > > It's all in the environment. Adam mentions App::GUI::Notepad but this > depends on perlWx, which is usually not present and far from easy to > install. Other applications need databases. You might be surprised to learn how close to being no longer true this is. Once the next release of WxPerl is out, you should be able to just do the following (for Vanilla, which is my testing platform) on Windows. 1. Install Vanilla Perl. 2. > cpan App::GUI::Notepad And it will install properly, Wx and all. As for databases, surely SQLite is the obvious choice there? I had assumed that it was able to be installed on all three desktop platforms cleanly. Is this not the case? Adam K