David H. Adler wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 06:19:39PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Ok, first off lets just dispense with any thoughts of following this
with a discussion about how emacs rules and foo sucks.
However, for any Win32 using brethren we have they might like to have
a look at this
http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net
it appears to be a Win32 based Perl IDE that is reminiscent of Visual
Studio. I don't currently have a Windows box so I can't say anything
more but I'd be interested in peoples opinions after trying it out.
It also seems to have caused one of the most appaling domino-like crash
of my win98 system I've seen in ages.
Use a real OS :-)
On Win2K this is pretty cool actually. I did make it go pear shaped on a
SOAP program, but then SOAP::Lite is a bit scary, and there was lots of
networky stuff going on. OK, so it struggled with some LWP stuff too. On
less advanced scripts it worked a treat. Can't beat the old 'hover over
a variable and see its value' thing.
I did find that occasionally the perl debug server process that the IDE
talks to would get in a tizzy and have to be manually killed, but
generally it was pretty good.
Shame that it does die on some of the trickier stuff, but ultimately I'd
say this had a future.
On the subject of Win32 tools, does anyone know of a win32 perl profiler
front end? I actually think the standard profiler is comparatively easy
to use, but profiling code is IMHO a much under-used tool for improving
programs, and anything that encourages it would be welcome.
Oh, and if anyone knows of a free Java profiler, let me know
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