On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Fabio D'Alfonso < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > it seems a very good idea. > But about > > > * The use of Prima will provide an easy > to use, default GUI environment for more > sophisticated and user friendly PDL > applications. > > there are some things to consider. > Both PDL and Prima have issues with documentation. > I started to post something on perl.org about Prima, as is known to > followers of the Prima list and also with some kind help, found many issues > with undocumented behaviors. > > I would worry about the issues that the lack of documentation could bring > to the PDL/Prima Joint Venture. At the same time this could be a great > opportunity to bring together efforts to produce an adoptable resource. > PDL /Prima are the only resources a available that have no specific effort > to produce an high quality "seems a book" document. > > GTK2 has one (http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/gtk2-perl-study-guide/) > Tk has one (Mastering/Tk, O'Reilly) > > I would be happy to help in this project for the docs, but only if a > highy revised documentation (as for example that of GTK2, to consider > something possible) in favor of users, and not a "pod 2 something", is > intended as a CORE part of the initiative. > > I would propose to consider the ratio Number of Users / Number of > Developers as a success index for both PDL and Prima. > Addressing this shortcoming will be my responsibility. One of my jobs before the next point release will be to write one or two chapters on PDL::Graphics::Prima. If two, the first would be an intro to the ::Simple interface so that people know how to make quick plots of their data, while the second would discuss interactive data analysis using the GUI toolkit. The second chapter would spend quite a bit of time working on widget placement and packing, and writing meaningful callbacks to get useful interactions. Davivd -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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