Re: [wxperl-users] wxPerl Community project...

[Mark D. <mar...@zn...>]

Hi Donovan,

I guess it goes back to Huub's original mail in that a common repository
for all things wxPerl would be quite nice. I have no real opinion about
what the back end to this should be nor where it might be hosted other
than that as it all ultimately depends on Mattias' work, you'd need a
good reason not to host it at wxperl.sourceforge.net. I'm not saying
there aren't good reasons - its just a straightforward non-loaded statement.

I see no reason why a wxPerlIDE couldn't live alongside work on specific
applications. After all, if you believe that application 'A' is the way
to go, then you're much more likely to contribute to application 'A'
rather than 'B'. I didn't mean to disparage 'killer app' as an idea. Its
just not 'application A' for me.

As for creating square wheels you may be right. I personally have
finally got to the stage where I have a bunch of base frame and dialog
classes that do stuff just the way I like and I don't actually use any
dialog designer at all. (I'm still struggling with the POE question
though so will be off to look at Eric's code shortly). But it took me a
long time to get there. I figured wxPerlIDE would provide an easier
entry point for new users from both a practical usage and example code
point of view.

The Web3 stuff, of course, is born out of issues and questions that many
people have to solve every working day. Perl / CPAN offers superior
solutions to most of this already but is often not the solution of
choice. I really do believe that wxPerl + CPAN + Perl + some snappy new
framework name is a solution that could be working 'in the wild' in very
short order.

Bizarely, I think that the most important part of this is the snappy new
framework name - but then maybe I've just spent too much time in the
company of people who want their solutions to be 'SOA re-architected in
.NET' and are responsible for the hideous re-animation of that 1980's
piece of corporate babble-speak, the 'paradigm shift'.

But I find myself digressing. Lets have 'Killer App' and 'wxPerlIDE' at
a common home.


Mark