On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Brian Raven wrote: > Thanks for that, but to reiterate, the demo programs for Tkx would > hang on my XP box, requiring the Task Manager to kill them, when I > installed it with the 815 build (not 817 as I original said - don't > know if that makes a difference). They only worked after installing > ActiveTcl.
That is understandable. Build 817.90 was the first ActivePerl version to bundle the Tcl interpreter and widget set. So if you install the Tcl and Tkx modules into earlier builds then you need to install ActiveTcl too. > I have had a little play with the new ppm in beta distribution and > have a few comments. Thanks a lot! > GIU: > > Help->PPM FAQ displays the FAQ for PPM3. However, I was not without > assistance completely as, irony of ironies, the command line help was > mostly OK. Yes, we were already planning to fix this for the final 818 release. > Doesn't seem to do a good job with the (presumably) Unicode characters > in some author's names. I had supposed that a significant reason for > using Tkx was better Unicode support. This may have to wait for a later release; the problem is that for commandline operation we cannot use Unicode, and the GUI is limited in what the PPM4 backend provides. This is *not* a limitation of Tkx. > Preference->Repositories: The "Destroy repository" button could > perhaps be better named. I wouldn't like to think that I was actually > destroying somebodies repository :-). Yes, I noticed that too. It has already been fixed this morning. :) > Preference->Repositories: How about being able to edit a repository? > You can agt least change the name from the command line. You can edit the name in the GUI too by clicking into the name field, but it seems to be somewhat flaky. But I think we need to be able to edit the URL too. > Command line: > > 'ppm help' seems to be filtered through a pager (more?), but 'ppm help > <command>' doesn't. Ok, I'll file a bug for this. > Liked 'ppm repo suggest'. > > In general, although the GUI is pretty, to be honest I am probably > unlikely to use it. Partly because I don't actually use PPM that much, > and I am quite at home using a command line interface (showing my age > perhaps). Perhaps people who need to use PPM a lot and/or are not so > happy using the command like would probably find the GUI more useful. Both Komodo Pro and the Perl Dev Kit currently ship with VPM, a visual PPM client. There seem to be a significant number of people who like the GUI interface. We thought it would be better to bundle it with ActivePerl instead of putting it into the for-pay products, so we added a GUI when we wrote PPM4. This will let us remove VPM from Komodo 4 and PDK 7 whenever they are released. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
