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.
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.
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.
If you are using wxPerl and want to keep using it with recent
versions of Perl and wxWidgets, please join the mailing list.
As a start, I've set up a new, independent repo for wxPerl on GitHub.
It currently has two branches: wx30 and master.
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.
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.
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