[Epo-members-announce] Adding Padre, the Perl IDE as and EPO project

[Gabor Szabo]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, James Mastros <james at mastros.biz> wrote:
> (Note: I'm a special member.  As such, my vote doesn't actually count.)
>
> I was going to vote a guarded yey.  As new information comes in, this
> has become an abstain.  I think that a hand-holding editor would be a
> great thing to perl.  I think that Padre isn't the perlish way to do
> it, neccessarly.  I see a lot of attempt at deep integration --
> building an editor in perl, and a collection of tools built to work
> inside of it, and, Gabor suggests, a framework for writing
> applications that is integrated with the editor... the middle one
> worries me, and the last is just a step too far.
>
> I think an editor in perl is a good idea.  I also think that better
> perl tools for emacs, and for vi, are good ideas.  I think that a
> framework for writing desktop applications is a good idea -- but I
> absolutely don't want one that treats any editor as a neccessary
> component!  (Not even if it was my preferred editor, and I don't think
> that Padre will ever become my preferred editor -- I like screen too
> much to use a GUI editor again.

I am going into too much detail here I think but by the time it
becomes a platform
it won't include the editor part of it. The editor will be probably a plugin.
It should just make it super easy to build a cross platform application.

> I think Strawberry's strength is that it is a distribution of perl,
> first and foremost.  You don't have a normal perl way to do things and
> a strawberry way, you make the normal perl way to do things Just Work
> under strawberry.  That is a great thing, but what I see going on here
> is not that thing.

As I understand from Adam Kennedy, there will be the plain Strawberry similar to
what it is now and what you suggest and there will be the
"Professional" (used to
be Chocolate) that will include about half of CPAN. Hopefully the
Enlightened half of it.

Even that Professional will be just the regular perl as we know it but
it will have a lot
of CPAN packages already installed to help beginners start with something more
than plain perl.

Gabor