I returned to messing around with the Raspberry Pi over the last couple of days and finally got around to publishing the Citrus Perl distribution for Raspberry and the start of a distribution wrapping various Raspberry GPIO libraries and hardware.
Citrus & Raspberry Pi
Showing posts with label Citrus Perl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citrus Perl. Show all posts
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Friday, August 31, 2012
Citrus Perl 5.16.1 Released
Citrus Perl 5.16.1 has been released bringing the latest Perl and Wx together in a binary distribution. On Windows, Linux and Mac OSX downloads including Wx built against both wxWidgets 2.8.12 and 2.9.4 are available.
Citrus Perl Downloads
Mac OSX Mountain Lion is now also supported.
Citrus Perl Downloads
Mac OSX Mountain Lion is now also supported.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
New Citrus Perl keeping ahead of the $->MainLoop
I've been putting some effort into improving the user experience when installing and using Citrus Perl and I've taken the opportunity to add a couple of features that may make the distributions more attractive as a platform for application distribution.
The latest releases also come in two flavours with wxWidgets 2.8.12 stable or development wxWidgets 2.9.3. It is probably time for existing users of wxPerl to think about looking how their code works under the development version and also time to take a look at the many new features and controls in the development version.
First time users should probably stick with the stable version for now. There are still one or two issues with 2.9.3 that could leave a new user scratching their head wondering why oh why the code doesn't work like the docs say.
It is a distribution to support GUI development in the main so it has, at last, grown some GUI tools and installation methods.
A Citrus Utilities Application helps you set up ( relocate ) Perl and carry out some platform specific tasks.
Citrus Perl also allows you to create new distributions. To make this more obvious and simpler to do, this feature gets a tab in the utilities application too. All the essential stuff is covered like "What shall I call it?" and "Can I have my own splash logo?". As an added bonus it actually works too.
This is, I think, a particularly interesting feature if you wanted to put together a distribution of something like BioPerl and your end users would not be able to successfully put together all the dependencies themselves.
And finally on the feature front, if you feel that your end users should be able to point and click everything, the utilities app will create dependent executables for you that you can ship and relocate with your custom distribution.
I haven't got around to adding features for creating desktop and application menu icons yet - but the code's open and has a hook already for a post installation script so you can always write this yourself.
As always, the distributions include Tk to help Tk applications developers with migration of code to wxPerl. It really is time you all did this :-)
The Utilities Application works with a set of modules I've called "CP::Wx" which is showing mild signs of developing into a sort of mini Wx framework.
my $obj = CP::Wx::Widget->new($prnt, style => wxSTYLE_I_WANT);
is something I've been wanting to do for a while.
Full source for everything is included in the distribution so you can stare aghast at the quality of code I'm willing to distribute.
The latest releases also come in two flavours with wxWidgets 2.8.12 stable or development wxWidgets 2.9.3. It is probably time for existing users of wxPerl to think about looking how their code works under the development version and also time to take a look at the many new features and controls in the development version.
First time users should probably stick with the stable version for now. There are still one or two issues with 2.9.3 that could leave a new user scratching their head wondering why oh why the code doesn't work like the docs say.
It is a distribution to support GUI development in the main so it has, at last, grown some GUI tools and installation methods.
A Citrus Utilities Application helps you set up ( relocate ) Perl and carry out some platform specific tasks.
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| Citrus Utilities Management Tab |
Citrus Perl also allows you to create new distributions. To make this more obvious and simpler to do, this feature gets a tab in the utilities application too. All the essential stuff is covered like "What shall I call it?" and "Can I have my own splash logo?". As an added bonus it actually works too.
This is, I think, a particularly interesting feature if you wanted to put together a distribution of something like BioPerl and your end users would not be able to successfully put together all the dependencies themselves.
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| Citrus Utilities Distribution Tab |
And finally on the feature front, if you feel that your end users should be able to point and click everything, the utilities app will create dependent executables for you that you can ship and relocate with your custom distribution.
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| Citrus Utilities Executable Tab |
I haven't got around to adding features for creating desktop and application menu icons yet - but the code's open and has a hook already for a post installation script so you can always write this yourself.
As always, the distributions include Tk to help Tk applications developers with migration of code to wxPerl. It really is time you all did this :-)
The Utilities Application works with a set of modules I've called "CP::Wx" which is showing mild signs of developing into a sort of mini Wx framework.
my $obj = CP::Wx::Widget->new($prnt, style => wxSTYLE_I_WANT);
is something I've been wanting to do for a while.
Full source for everything is included in the distribution so you can stare aghast at the quality of code I'm willing to distribute.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Citrus Perl - create your own binary distributions
Citrus Perl is a binary distribution of Perl (Currenly 5.12) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The primary aim of the distribution is to provide a standard platform for building and distributing Wx based applications. It also contains builds of several other modules including DBD::Pg, DBD::mysql, DBD::SQlite, TK, GD and GD::Graph.
The latest release (8) allows you to create your own distribution containing any extra modules you have installed.
Citrus Perl attempts to provide one solution to the problem of:
A) A desirable way to distribute a Perl application is to install Perl,
B) It can be quite difficult to get a standard and predictable build of modules such as Wx, GD and DBD::Pg across Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
The entire distribution is released under the same Artistic License as the distributed Perl with the exception of external libraries and tools ( libmysql, libpq, mingw toolchain etc.) that carry their own licence terms.
Citrus Perl Information and Download
The latest release (8) allows you to create your own distribution containing any extra modules you have installed.
Citrus Perl attempts to provide one solution to the problem of:
A) A desirable way to distribute a Perl application is to install Perl,
B) It can be quite difficult to get a standard and predictable build of modules such as Wx, GD and DBD::Pg across Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
The entire distribution is released under the same Artistic License as the distributed Perl with the exception of external libraries and tools ( libmysql, libpq, mingw toolchain etc.) that carry their own licence terms.
Citrus Perl Information and Download
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