On Wed, 09 May 2007, Foo JH wrote: > > The ActiveState preferred choice of Perl GUI toolkit is Tkx (or > > Tcl::Tk). > > > I like the GUI version of PPM. Very clean. Helped me identify a new > version of DBI along the way... > > And I agree with you that wxPerl isn't exactly easy to learn either. > Bit of pain along the way. People know there's a problem, but I guess > we don't have enough contributions to soup it up.
Yes, that is a general problem. Even the Perl 6 implementers are complaining about the lack of contributors. > But Jan, what do you think of my point 2, on ActiveState being a focal > point for the Perl projects out there? Could you elaborate a bit how you envision this "focal point" to work? I would prefer to hear some concrete examples, and not just general hand-waving... :) Cheers, -Jan PS: I forgot to mention this earlier in this thread, but there is also Perl 5.10 coming up later this summer. It has a bunch of interesting new features too (some borrowed from the Perl 6 specs): * regular expression improvements - engine is no longer recursive, so won't run out of memory - named capture groups - lots of other bells & whistles * assertions * user defined lexical pragmata * native switch statement * smart match operator * state variables * "defined or" operator * say keyword * field hashes (for inside-out object support _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
