Re: A data filter widget

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

ofey aikon said:
> I use this widget to select a subset of records from a master list and then
> view the details of
> these records in a treeview later on. After writing it, I thought this widget
> may be of general
> use and therefore it may me useful to open-source it.
>
> I have never released a module in the open before and therefore these newbie
> questions.
>
> 1. I am considering the name Gtk2::Ex::Data::Browser for this module. Is this
> appropriate ? Or is
> Gtk2::Ex used for other purposes ?

that is exactly what Gtk2::Ex is for. i can't say that i can think of a better
name for it, but that one doesn't tell me too much about what it is.
suggestions anyone?

> 2. I assume the norm is to use GPL as the license for such packages.

gtk2-perl is LGPL so that would be my suggestion, though i don't really know
much about license terms etc.

> 3. Should I just upload it into CPAN or is there another repository (may be
> Gtk2::Ex related )
> that I should choose.

it should go in CPAN reguardless of where you house the project. your options
are to just keep it on your computer (not very good,) to create a sourceforge
(or similar) project for it or to house it in the gtk2-perl-ex project's space
on sourceforge. i created the gtk2-perl-ex project a while back. it currently
houses Gtk2::Ex::Simple::(List|Tree|Menu) there were several others who spoke
up as interested in housing stuff there, but i haven't heard anything more
from them.

> The package can be found at the following location (I'm poor and have no
> webspace of my own).
> http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/41c0fa38_58f6/bc/My+Documents/Gtk2-Ex-Data-Browser.zip?bfK1PwBBYIWSXq9Y
>
> A demo program can be found here.
> http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/41c0fa38_58f6/bc/My+Documents/demo.zip?bf5AQwBBxg9v1KdW
>
> Any general feedback on the module itself will be greatly appreciated too.

you'll probably want to have a look at some of the pkg documentation on the
perl/cpan sites about how to structure perl pkgs etc.

-rm