In article <m148tE0-001z4fC / cello>, Jens Luedicke <jens / irs-net.com> wrote: > >> FWIW, on a somewhat related tangent, C. Laird's Jan. DDJ article discusses >> several Perl/<GUI> ports. My (very) superficial impression from skimming >> over it is that Perl/Tk gets by far the widest usage, with Perl/GTK+ >> showing very strong growth. Perl/wxWindows seems to be >> incomplete/languishing due to lack of serious development support (which I >> find surprising, given the huge size of the Perl community, plus the fact >> that wxWindows seems to be the type of GUI system that you and >> presumably/supposedly most application users would prefer), and Perl/Qt is >> too new to say much about. > >Perl/Qt is not maintained anymore. At least it seems like that. >I emailed its author and I never got an answer. . . . There's some strange cultural clash involved in Perl/wxWindows. wxWindows loses out with quite a few people who fear C++ in comparison to C, and the huge Perl community simply spends most of its time thinking about things in a way that doesn't fit wxWindows well. -- Cameron Laird <claird / NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html