Hi P Kishor, I'm replying regarding Padre because I'm a Padre contributor and I'm friends with some of its developers (though I'm still using gvim on GNU/Linux primarily).
On Tuesday 20 Apr 2010 00:46:15 P Kishor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:52 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Breaking this thread into what should have been two threads to begin > >> with... > >> > >> > > I started working on PLplot but got sidetracked. I've had a mind to write > > up how to clean up the old documentation and write new PDL documentation > > guidelines, but I've not gotten around to it. For now, the rule of thumb > > is this: use your local copy of the documentation (which for me displays > > beautifully in Padre) or use the documentation generated for > > Sourceforge. > > Sorry, Padre is not an option for me. I could never get it to work on > my Mac, and the purported rewards from installing it are simply not > high enough for me to justify bearing the pain. You seem incredibly emotional about it. > I tried to install it > from source, and found that I needed a threaded perl. Well, I was told that on Mac OS X installing CPAN modules on the built-in perl directly is not recommended and you must always compile it yourself and use it, so it's not that bad. > I installed a > threaded perl and failed in installing Padre even then. How did you fail? What happened exactly? Can you be more specific? > Then I found a > binary .dmg for Macs on the Padre web site, downloaded it, but it > crashes on every invocation. I informed the folks on Padre IRC, but no > one responded. Well, as David noted, they are usually responsive. You can try subscribing to the mailing list and report it there (you can subscribe and cancel receiving the E-mail, not that the E-mail volume there is overwhelming) and even ask for a bug reporting authorisation to report the bug. > I go back to my stable Coda or TextWrangler. > I see that TextWrangler is the gratis version of BBEdit, and that Coda is a proprietary text editor. I added it to my list of editors and IDEs: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/editors-and-IDEs/ > pdldoc, on the other hand, is an interesting option, but I would > prefer an htmlized version locally on my machine for my disconnected > viewing pleasure. Yes, now that I know I can use sf.net, but can I > generate the real pdl docs as html on my own laptop? > Have you tried http://docperl.sourceforge.net/ or something similar? > > All sorts of people new to PDL will look on CPAN and will be confused > > until it's fixed. I know it's a problem and I'm slowly working on it. > > Sorry I've not covered more ground. > > > > David Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
