Re: wxPerl Infrastructure Support Issues

Hi Mehmet,

Thanks for your email.

James' list does indeed look intimidating, but I hope once we start the 
momentum will build.

Wx and Alien::Widgets are not abandoned, they are just under-resourced.

Here is a list of recent updates at sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/p/wxperl/code/HEAD/tree/

We here are all the maintainers.  If we don't like something we fix it 
in our own environments and post it here.  Mark will migrate it to the 
various repositories.

We have had almost as much activity on the list in January 2016 than in 
the whole of 2015.  Long may it continue!

I don't have a Mac, but maybe I can help you with your installation 
problems.  Are you still getting the same error? Ie "No wxWidgets build 
found.".

Please remind us how you are installing.  The purpose of 
Alien::wxWidgets is to install wxWidgets in a selected directory and 
then point wxPerl to it.  There is normally a configuration file or 
environment variable that will point wxPerl (ie Wx) to the right directory.

Please post your current status and I'll try to help you.

Regards

Steve.

On 12/01/16 17:53, Mehmet Kayaalp wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, James Lynes <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> [...]
> > wxPerl Language Support
> >    Bug Fixes(Mark & ?)
>
> I was looking for a proper pigeon hole to place my support request wrt 
> wxPerl for Win-64 on ActivePerl 
> <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2016/01/msg9577.html>.
> On the main wiki page, I found links to two support pages, Wx 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Wx> and 
> Alien::wxWidgets 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Alien-wxWidgets>, 
> at cpan, but they are not maintained.
>
> 41678 <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41678> 	*Can't build 
> on OpenBSD perl 5.10 wxWidgets 2.8.7 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41678>* 	open 	Critical 	6 
> years ago 	0.40
> 0.41
> 0.42
>
> Maintainers of both sites are listed as MBARBON 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=MBARBON>, and 
> MDOOTSON 
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=MDOOTSON>.
> Clearly they abandoned the effort, or that is the impression I get 
> from outside.
> Does anyone willing to take responsibility to maintain these pages?
> As I understand from you discussions, there is a new on-going 
> reformation attempt.
> James' list is a good plan but it also seems overwhelming to approach, 
> unless there is a prioritization in place.
> I would suggest assigning a high priority to making the existing 
> software work on the current platforms with the latest versions of 
> Perl/ActivePerl.
>
> My two cents.