>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> Daniel Kasak wrote: >> Beast wrote: >> ... >>> Seriously, is there any seriuos project written using >>> gtk-perl? I found very little number of projects in SF or >>> freshmeat, most of them are in alpha stage or left >>> unmaintained. >> ... I honestly don't know why there aren't more projects >> though. Perl just seems like the perfect language, gtk2 >> the best toolkit ( I won't say perfect here ), and the >> gtk2-perl bindings are excellent. ... Joe> IME, delivery of any Perl _application_ is a Joe> showstopper. Have you guys decided that I should spend my day writing soaps about my current project or what ? Ok. Note that this is off-topic on this list. <soap> My current project... bla bla bla. And that was on Solaris. Then the client decided that he needed a "small part" of it on windows. Great, I thought to myself, here I am trapped, how will I manage to get a perl interpreter installed throughout the world in so many companies partnering with this big PABX supplier ? Answer : search.cpang.org. Module : PAR Home Page: http://par.perl.org/index.cgi Example: pp script_using_a_bunch_of_random_modules.pl -o appli.exe The preceding command will produce an executable program, embedding its own private perl interpreter and all the necessary modules (and yes XSs too). At its first execution it will extract himself in a temporary directory. The subsequent executions can reused that cached extraction. Simple, efficient, magic :) </soap> Joe> Anything robust enough to be used by 'normal' users Joe> (rather than developers or sysadmins) invariably has a Joe> number of dependencies, often needs some XS glue to some Joe> other library, etc. Gtk & a GUI layer only compound the Joe> problem. Tk works like a charm. I didn't have enough time on my hands to try gtk, but I will try at the first occasion (before the end of the year with a bit of luck). And yes I keep muppet's remark about gtk wanting to be installed at a fixed location in mind. Joe> Lyricue looks sweet, but it would probably take me Joe> several hours of work, and some serious Perl/system Joe> knowledge to get all the dependencies installed and get Joe> the app working. If I want to install it on another Joe> system, I start over again from scratch. Boring isnt't it ? Oh, the joys of PAR :) Joe> This isn't nearly such problem for 'internal' Joe> applications, to be used by developers, or where Joe> wizardly installation support is available, and I think Joe> that's where Gtk2-Perl is most successful. Besides the afore-mentionned pp, PAR provide '.par' files similar to '.jar' files in Java. Joe> It would be extremely helpful if Perl had some way to Joe> bundle up _everything_ needed for an app, extract & Joe> configure it in some temp dir, point PERL5LIB to it and Joe> run right from there. Likely, knowing Perl hackers, Joe> someone already has that working, I just don't know Joe> about it! So why didn't you search for it ? google may be a standard for the rest, but for perl nothing can beat CPAN :) Vincent _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list