[MOBY-l] People's experience with perl-based GUI libraries

[Lincoln Stein]

A lot of people seem happy with GTK-Perl.  I always liked PerlTk, 
though, and it is very portable to Windows.

Lincoln

On Sunday 28 December 2003 08:44 pm, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting serious now about building a standalone MOBY client,
> and will be writing it in Perl since the perl MOBY libraries have
> somewhat higher functionality at the moment (yeah, THAT's the
> reason!)
>
> I'm wondering what experience people have with the various widget
> libraries that are available for Perl.  I have a lot of experience
> with Tk/Perl through my work on Genquire, but I am not particularly
> pleased with it.  I'm also looking at WxPerl, and Qt.  I'm quite
> impressed with Qt-Perl, actually, but it is a bit of a pain to
> install, and perhaps more importantly there is no free distribution
> of the Qt widgets for MS Windows so it would require Windows users
> to install Cygwin (which isn't such a bad idea anyway! ;-) )
>
> Do any of you have opinions on this (based on experience or gut
> instinct ;-) )?  Certainly I'll be trying to keep the "guts" and
> the visualization as separate as possible so that we can change our
> minds later, but it would be nice to have a widely useful product
> in the first iteration.
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Mark