[Lilproxy-project] Looking to the future. and Perl for Windows

[David I. <co...@ya...>]

I was having a small ponder on what we should be looking to do in the future
with lil-proxy to bring new functions and things to learn, and also what we
would want to get out of this as developers, personally as a developer I
would be looking to learn perl to the state I could use it to develop
applications that clients ask me for. In general, and I think this is pretty
much the same all round, the application would have some sort of database in
it if not completely database driven, and will at some point have some sort
of gui, I'm not a big fan of point and drool interfaces myself, but
unfortunatly clients are.

So perhaps in the future, once we are all familiar with the tools we will be
using to create lil-proxy, such as cvs and a an editor etc.  And also perl
itself, since it is by no way a standard language, and has a lot of
brilliant features that take a bit of getting used to, especially if you
come from a very rigid or strongly typed language.

Anyway in the future I would be looking to develop a small gui front end,
even if it just executes lil-proxy with the specified command line args,
(The preferred way) something similar to what i think win32 users will see
if they start or stop a service, they get a small dialog box up from control
panel. Just a simple introduction to a widget set and how it can be used
under perl and that sort of thing.

And secondly some sort of DBI gadget to store details of the sites visited
etc. and perhaps if we are really good at databases and gui's we could make
a site statistics screen.

Also, i'm now away from home for a while, and no longer have access to my
*nix boxes, although i do have linux on my laptop, but no net access yet.
So, i'm looking for a perl suite for windows, I had a look at activestates
perl, but it appears to need interdev, which I do not have. (to my
knowledge.)  Are there any other good suites, and or packages I should have?

Anyway just a few thoughts, on where I would like to see Lil-proxy going in
the future.  Anybody else care to share some ideas?


Thanks

David