[Padre-dev] Some Padre problems

[Gabor Szabo]

Hi Richard,

thanks for your e-mail.

I am also forwarding it to the padre-dev list with a few comments so
we can improve things.

2009/7/13 Richard Hainsworth <richard at rusrating.ru>:
> Dear Gabor,
>
> Thanks for your help last night on #perl6.
>
> I have  to use padre for quite some time. Got frustrated with various
> things, but came back to it after seeing work being done on grok.
>
> Some problems recently:
> a) I tried doing syntax highlighting with a
> proto sub infix:<myoperator>(@vec, at mat) { ... };
>
> It gobbled up cpu resources and I had to kill it.

I guess this is an STD.pm issue but I am sure azawawi will be able to look
into the problem.


> b) I could not get a perl6 script to run (as explained on #perl6) and there
> is nothing I could find about the necessary environment settings.
>
> Perhaps, it would be possible to add a section on Perl6 in the main help
> document. Just a hint about RAKUDO_DIR would have been useful.

Based on our discussion on #perl6 I see some confusion that we have to clear up.
1) The Parrot plugin is not needed for running Perl 6 code on Rakudo,
its docs should indicate this
2) IMHO the Perl 6 plugin should look for the perl6 executable in
several places (including the $RAKUDO_DIR)
    but should not attempt to run perl 6 code if it did not find a
perl 6 executable. It should report it as an error.
3) We should have clear instructions on how to get started with Perl 6
using Padre both in the Perl 6 plugin
    and on our web site.


>
> But Padre does look much better now, and I have been wanting to use it for a
> while.

Please if you find any annoyance let us know in #padre @ irc.perl.org
or open a ticket on
http://padre.perlide.org/trac/

regards
   Gabor