Has anyone gotten Padre IDE working on Leap?
I suspect bad news –
- openSUSE Open Build Service – <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:perl:CPAN-P/perl-Padre> – 6 years old – last change for 1 year – last Leap activity → Leap 42.2 (build was excluded) – Tumbleweed has an unresolvable build error …
- CPAN – <https://padre.perlide.org/download/opensuse.html> – last change was in 2016 – the “wxWidgets-devel” is available from the openSUSE LEap 15.2 repository → “wxWidgets-3_0-devel” - “Development files for GTK2-backed wxWidgets 3.0” …
[HR][/HR]Yes, Padre is/was a recommended Perl IDE – searching for an alternative reveals (for me) only –
- The “EPIC
” plugin for Eclipse. - Editor only –
*=2]Kate.
*=2]Vim.
*=2]Emacs.
The KDevelop IDE doesn’t support Perl very much at all – there’s no Perl debug capability …
Ah, I see. I didn’t notice that. I did find EPIC for Eclipse which seems operational. Thank you.
My experience with Perl was due to an automated test rig based on Perl used for integration testing of an embedded real-time system – we were writing the Test Cases in Perl – including some fairly complicated issues around message element structures, plus timing issues around “what was expected and when” …
We tended to simply use Vim for the editing with debugging being done by single-stepping the Test Cases – no IDE …
Yes, these days I would prefer an IDE such as the Eclipse plugin (EPIC), despite my preference for KDevelop over Eclipse – unfortunately, KDevelop doesn’t support Perl – I would have to use Eclipse …
- But, I’m retired so, that doesn’t really matter …
Thanks for the info. The nice thing about some IDE’s is that they can parse a complex existing project (recursively search a given directory tree and find code files). I did this to understand a complex fortran project using the CODE::BLOCKS Fortran version (apparently CODE::BLOCKS doesn’t have a PERL version, or capability, apparently).
So I was looking for this directory-scan capability in an IDE for PERL, since now I’m faced with understanding a complex directory tree that’s full of PERL programs which together constitute a suite of programs. I’m not a professional programmer, just a scientist trying to understand (and possibly modify) a complex software I’m using.
I guess I’ll try Eclipse + PERL plugin and see where that gets me, but I can’t find an “Eclipse” to install for Leap 15.3 repos. A lot of Eclipse-related stuff is there, but I can’t tell what is actually the Eclipse package…
Hi
Maybe vscode might give better results? In the past I’ve just downloaded eclipse and run from the directory, but switched to vscode instead…
May be it is not what you look for, as it is not strictly an IDE, but FWIW I find Kate’s color coding useful for the few languages I use most often (Perl, Python, LaTeX, Bash). Give it a try, it’s free, at worst you won’t like it at best you may find a good place to code.
Thanks, Malcom. Huh - vscode never showed up in any of my searches for PERL IDE’s. (Maybe I need to stop using non-google search engines? lol!)
It looks like there is a plug in for vscode for PERL - not sure it’s maintained any more…
Hi
There a lots… just a quick look…
https://forums.opensuse.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1016&stc=1
