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On Saturday 17 June 2006 08:40, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > 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, > When is this likely to be? The website says last major release was November 2005 (8 months ago). > 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. > Sounds good - if that works on Unix, Linux and Mac, and if that can include something like SQLite for the db, then that is sounding very promising indeed. A simple install is underestimated by we programmers for end-users - the people who pay the bills... The question though at the back of everyone's mind might be: will this go the same way as PerlTK? I mean by that, PTK was fantastic, with Nick I-S putting an awsome amount of work into it, but in the end it wasn't supported continually on all 3 major platforms, so it became sort of side-lined to the point where you can use it on *nix but not easily anywhere else (please correct me if I'm wrong here). Now we have wxPerl at what looks like a mature stage, and can we learn from history and ensure it survives long enough to build up a solid core of users? -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/index.html http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=399 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtessentials/index.html