Re: Cool Ideas for Perl Projects (The Strawberry Loft)

[Corion]

One cool idea that is floating in the back and front of my mind from time to time would be the combination of Strawberry Perl together with PAR, DBD::SQLite and The GUI Loft into a Visual Basic/Access/Filemaker clone.

I have only taken a cursory look at The GUI Loft, and so far I mostly see the need to excise XML::Simple resp. XML::Parser from the prerequisites, as Strawberry Perl "only" comes with XML::LibXML and not XML::Parser. Starting from there, it should be possible to get The GUI Loft to run on a current Strawberry Perl. Then, some wizards to package up everything under a directory into a PAR executable or to even collect the code together with the data in the SQLite database should be fairly easy and it would make Perl a convenient tool to create deployable applications to users when no web server is available.

[jplindstrom]

I think the only thing XML is used for is config reading/writing, so replacing it with YAML or a hashref should be trivial.

And I don't think that's used at all in the TGL runtime library.

/J

[TGI]

This is such a great idea, I'd love to see it. It would be even better if one could create easily create portable apps.

I've played a bit with The GUI Loft and I'm quite impressed. The only problem I have with it is that is Win32 only.

If only there was a similar tool for wx or even Tk that was a nicely done, I'd happily suggest it. Sadly I can't think of anything to suggest.