Re: [wxperl-users] WxPerl installation

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:40 -0700 (PDT)
Tim Freedom <tim...@ya...> wrote:

  Hi,

> Hi - I've been having an extremely difficult time installing WxPerl on
> my debian stable (sarge).  There are no instructions on how to do that
> nor are there any recent .deb files (do please consider adding them to
> the sf.net repository).  I even tried to get the files directly from
> CPAN and that too died due to some dependency issues (directly from CPAN).
> Note that the CPAN page,

  Please notice that if you do not give some detail about the dependency
issues, there is no way they can be fixed.

>   http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.57/Wx.pm
> 
> states that one should 'Please see docs/install.txt in source package'
> which is not intuitive since there are no directions of what package
> that is included in - you might be better served in posting the
> instructions and/or creating a Wiki page and pointing to it.

  http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.57/
links to http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.57/docs/INSTALL.pod
so I am not sure how better this document could be publicized.

> Also note
> that the link above notes version 0.57 while your homepage website
> notes latest release being 0.50 - so I'm not sure what is what.

  The homepage has not been updated...
 
> Do also try to include some assistance on your docs page,
> 
>   http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
> 
> Do please note that a number of people I've talked to (some that have
> been using linux for 8-10 years) admited to having alot of difficulties
> installing and getting this to work properly.  Python seems to have done
> a better job in packaging and thus you see more people using WxPython yet
> I loath Python and would really like to see more people using WxPerl.

  Please understand that without further details I will not be able
to do anything about the problems you are facing.

Regards
Mattia