This sounds pretty excellent. Michael
On 2016-01-02 20:01, Steve Cookson wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Well I'm still here. For the last two years I've been hung up with > supplier management and Brazilian importation. Plus we've just moved > house in the UK and you may have noticed the annual festivities as > well. However, New Year, New Year's resolutions! > > I care about wxPerl and the last few years have seen a drastic decline > in its usage. > > It seems to me that it could be revived with a bit of a joint effort. > > wxPerl, wx and perl are all fairly fairly long in the tooth. But > languages are driven by the requirements to use them. We all probably > remember when the Human genome project saved Perl and breathed life > back into it. Although Perl is no longer a top ranking language, many > websites are still authored in it. Many developing countries also use > Perl extensively, because it is easy to pick up and has an extensive > and helpful community. This still makes Perl attractive. > > wxWidgets has a good track record but really needs some more platform > and gesture support to make it sexier. > > Which bring us to wxPerl. > > I subscribe to a number of mailing groups and have done for a few > years. I have 3,800 wxPerl emails in my wxPerl folder since about > 2008. Over the same time I have received 19,144 wx-Users emails for > the c++ mailing list. But this pales in comparison the number of > people interested in video. For this I have: > > - gstreamer - 32,325 emails > - ffmpeg - 38,812 emails > - linux media 31,601 emails > > Apart from a few people coding in Python, that's over 100,000 emails > from and to people struggling with c++ and trying to get their video > apps to work, and I'm sure there are more. wxWidgets wraps a number > of cross platform controls and then wxPerl wraps those. But there is > no reason that we should not try to wrap directly to a video package > directly, for instance gstreamer, and circumnavigate wxWidgets > entirely. It would then be up to them to catch up. > > This would give the authors of those emails a quick and easy way of > getting their video apps working and could make this list a lot more > active. > > And that's just video. I'm sure there are large numbers of people > doing other things which could be incorporated into wxPerl. > > I would love to hear your views and ideas. Maybe we could team up. > > Regards > > Steve. > > > > > On 01/01/16 17:36, James Lynes wrote: >> Johan: >> >> I see you got an overwhelming response to your post. >> >> Is anyone still using wxPerl? The only response I got to my last >> couple of questions came from Steve. >> >> James >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl >> <mailto:jvrom...@squirrel.nl>> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:54:35 -0500 >> James Lynes <jmlyne...@gmail.com <mailto:jmlyne...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> > Great, but what needs to be done long term? >> >> I don't know. I'm about to stop caring for several reasons >> including age, >> health, personal circumstances, and the lack of support from others. >> >> If anyone wants to continue the wxPerl domains and the wiki it is >> now to >> time to step forward. >> >> Likewise CitrusPerl and the Cava Packager, two tools geared >> towards wxPerl >> support but unfortunately abandoned. >> >> -- Johan >> http://johan.vromans.org/seasons_greetings.html >> >> >
