[Padre-dev] Some Padre problems

[Gabor Szabo]

Let me forward this message too to padre-dev.
(It would better if you also subscribed  :-)

Gabor

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Richard
Hainsworth<richard at rusrating.ru> wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
> Thanks for the response. I got onto #padre at perl.org without a problem
> this morning from work, but had all sorts of hassle at home last night -
> dont know why.
>
> Now that I have found the padre channel, I will go there first.
>
> The documentation question though is quite serious. I found it very
> difficult to work out what to do from the existing documentation. As
> projects advance, documentation is added on. There is also a problem that
> initially things are very fluid, so writing documentation can be like
> drawing in the sand when the tide comes in. But at a certain stage, someone
> needs to look at all the documents, and reoorder ("re-factor") them. I would
> suggest that stage is now, given that there a certain degree of stability.
>
> For me, one of the biggest problems I faced was getting Wx to work. On
> ubuntu I have never been able to install Wx from cpan. But Ubuntu has Wx in
> a deb for installation. So an install for ubuntu would be to install Wx (and
> maybe a couple of other packages) using apt-get (or one of gui frontends),
> and then getting Padre from cpan.
>
> Also, there are now very  many Padre modules. It would be useful to know
> which are essential for a minimal Padre set-up, which for perl6, parrot etc.
>
> Actually, I would like to use Padre for Parrot as well.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
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