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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunkour own self generated FUD.

From:
Adam Kennedy
Date:
June 18, 2006 02:25
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunkour own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
20060618092431.19531.qmail@lists.develooper.com
> After the mentions here, I bounced over to sf.net to see the
> "documentation" promised on the CPAN page. Yeah, that was worth the trip...
> 
> App::GUI:Notepad is swell...but its hardly representative
> of a large scale desktop GUI app. Until there are usable docs that don't 
> require
> pawing thru the wxPerl source, and then require me to translate
> C++ into Perl, its likelihood of adoption by *developers* is pretty 
> limited.
> And based on dialogues I've had with others looking for a pTk
> alternative, my opinion is not an isolated one.

I completely agree that the documentation for wxPerl is pretty bad, and 
I hope to have a chat with Mattias at some point about opening up his 
version control to add accounts for people to be "doc committers" that 
might want to help out writing some documentation here and there (a 
model that Marcus has reported works very very well for Catalyst).

App::GUI::Notepad is indeed just a proof of concept.

But there's one big application I'm aware of on the way, I'm just 
waiting for Wx to be installable before it gets uploaded.

Adam K

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