The latest articles on DEV Community by Johan Vromans (@sciurius). https://dev.to/sciurius https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2203224%2F395e5a9b-fe41-4693-a3ff-8af30039479a.jpg https://dev.to/sciurius en Johan Vromans Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:09:05 +0000 https://dev.to/sciurius/wxperl-revival-5fde https://dev.to/sciurius/wxperl-revival-5fde <p>For several years now, development and support of wxPerl, the interface library between Perl and wxWidgets, has stalled. The latest release was based on Perl 5.16 and wxWidgets 2.9.</p> <p>Meanwhile some active users have made attempts to port wxPerl to newer versions of Perl and wxWidgets, with varying results. Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS provide additional challenges.</p> <p>I believe in user-friendly desktop based GUI applications written in Perl and wxPerl is an excellent tool to develop these applications that are deployable across different desktop platforms. I hate to see wxPerl rusting away in the archives.</p> <p><strong>If you are using wxPerl and want to keep using it with recent<br> versions of Perl and wxWidgets, please join the <a href="https://lists.perl.org/list/wxperl-users.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">mailing list</a>.</strong></p> <p>As a start, I've set up a new, independent repo for wxPerl on <a href="https://github.com/sciurius/wxPerl" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a>.</p> <p>It currently has two branches: wx30 and master.</p> <p>Branch wx30 contains an updated version of the last 'official' release 0.9932, fixed for modern Perl and wxWidgets 3.0. I have released it on GitHub as Wx-0.9933.</p> <p>The master branch has been updated with all necessary changes for wxWidgets 3.2. Also some constants and methods have been added to deploy some 3.2 functionality. I have released it on GitHub as Wx-3.001. More will be added in the future but will require help from Perl/XS experts.</p> perl wxwidgets wxperl