Re: table layout

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Beast wrote:
> > ...
> > Seriously, is there any seriuos project written using gtk-perl? I
> > found very little number of projects in SF or freshmeat, most of them
> > are in alpha stage or left unmaintained.
> ...
> I honestly don't know why there aren't more projects though. Perl just
> seems like the perfect language, gtk2 the best toolkit ( I won't say
> perfect here ), and the gtk2-perl bindings are excellent. ...

IME, delivery of any Perl _application_ is a showstopper.  Anything 
robust enough to be used by 'normal' users (rather than developers or 
sysadmins) invariably has a number of dependencies, often needs some XS 
glue to some other library, etc.  Gtk & a GUI layer only compound the 
problem.

Lyricue looks sweet, but it would probably take me several hours of 
work, and some serious Perl/system knowledge to get all the dependencies 
installed and get the app working.  If I want to install it on another 
system, I start over again from scratch.

This isn't nearly such problem for 'internal' applications, to be used 
by developers, or where wizardly installation support is available, and 
I think that's where Gtk2-Perl is most successful.

It would be extremely helpful if Perl had some way to bundle up 
_everything_ needed for an app, extract & configure it in some temp dir, 
point PERL5LIB to it and run right from there.  Likely, knowing Perl 
hackers, someone already has that working, I just don't know about it!

<Joe