[Padre-dev] Fwd: Perl IDE: EPIC, Padre

[Gabor Szabo]

The latest message from Jan Ploski.

Gabor

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jan Ploski <jpl at plosquare.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Perl IDE: EPIC, Padre
To: Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>


Hi Gabor,

Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> BTW if would be interesting if you could share data with us on the
> number of EPIC
> users or some usage patterns you might have learned from them.

I don't have means to track the usage patterns or the number of users
directly. The public download statistics at sf.net show a drop from
about 4000 monthly downloads into the 1000 range in the past few
months. However, I don't think it represents a waning interest in EPIC
or Perl, as the number of visitors to the downloads page has actually
slightly increased in the same period (up to 10000 unique visitors,
60% of them tagged as "new"). The total amount of traffic has stayed
pretty much constant for the past year or so.

66% of visitors to the EPIC web site use Windows, 22% Linux, 9% Mac.

32% are from the U.S., 13% from Germany, 5% from Japan.

> Though it depends on PPI and thus does not meet your requirement of minimal
> dependency you might want to take a look at PPIx::EditorTools and
> App::EditorTools.
> These are the first refactoring tools escaping from the Padre source code to be
> usable by others. It was moved out by Mark Grimes in order to use it in vim.
> See it in action:
> http://code-and-hacks.blogspot.com/2009/06/stealing-from-padre-for-vim.html

I'm cut off high-speed Internet for the next week, so I'll check it out later.

> BTW may I forward our conversation to the padre-dev mailing list so other can
> also see it?

Sure, go ahead.

Best regards,
Jan Ploski