Re: [wxperl-users] Inclusion of wxPerl in MacOSX 10.5 / Leopard

[Eric W. <scr...@gm...>]

# from Mattia Barbon
# on Saturday 28 April 2007 02:31 pm:

>=A0 The trouble (as usual) is finding somebody to do it. =A0I remember it
>took me a whole weekend (when everything went smoothly) to make a
>wxPerl binary release for RedHat, Win32 and OS X Panther+Tiger. =A0I
>also remember I anticipated with (almost) fear every wxPerl release,
>and I am much more relaxed now that I decided not to provide binaries
>myself.

The dotReader binary releases haven't been any sort of walk in the park. =20
A build Module::Build subclass which bundles everything into a=20
build+push scheme has been very helpful.

Perhaps if the wxPerl dist/svn included a build tool that could create=20
and upload (via svn/ftp?) a PAR for the given platform then volunteers=20
could handle the per-platform deps and QC?  Maybe even nightly builds?

Of course, getting that all setup and tested can be a real pain because=20
you have to test on (or emulate) a box without the requisite libraries,=20
etc.

What's the chance of getting cpan testers to check those?  Perhaps a=20
wxPerlBinary dist or some sort of change to Alien which allowed it to=20
install from source/par?

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