[Padre-dev] Padre PPMs

[Mark Dootson]

Hi All,

Padre PPM's are now available for

MSWin  - Perl 5.10 / 5.8
Linux  - Perl 5.10
MacOSX - Perl 5.10

Not that PPM's are such a big deal, Padre being pure Perl, but the 
repositories do provide working portable wxWidgets binaries for

Linux - glibc 2.5+

MacOSX - 10.4/10.5/10.6  ppc & intel

so it is a quick way to take a look at Padre.

The URL to point someone at is

http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/ppm-repository.html

There are 3 problems folks might face when installing Padre from PPM

1) All platforms - you must install the ppm for Debug::Client before 
Padre. Why this dependency does not work and the other 82 do, I don't 
know. (it is purely a ppm problem on my part - nothing to do with the 
modules themselves). Maybe I'll figure out the problem - but not yet.

2) MSWin - the PPM package manager will load the ActiveState Wx by 
default - which will prevent users from using any other xs based modules 
from my site - reason is ActiveState build using VC6. I don't as I use 
many of the recent graphic features in wxWidgets - which aren't 
available in the ActiveState built version (cannot be built with VC6). 
You cannot mix MinGW and VC6 within Wx.
So - if you want the extra xs modules, install the Wx PPM specifically 
from the http://www.wxperl.co.uk site before you install Padre

Hope this helps you spread the word.

Mark