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raham has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All I am a perl programmer and would like to know if there is an effective perl ide that can run on the Solaris environment. I tried active state and it would not configure with my machine as I have a intel based Solaris. Please advice where can I get an effective IDE for Perl with debugging facility.

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Re: PERL IDE
by nite_man (Deacon) on Nov 26, 2003 at 14:13 UTC

    Try to look at Vim for Perl developers by TVSET. In my opinion, using VIM is effective and universal way to get power and platform independent tool for Perl development.

    Hope it helped.

    -- Michael Stepanov

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Re: PERL IDE
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 26, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
    Maybe you'd be interested in EPIC, a set of Eclipse plugins.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Thats my choice Aristotle, I have been using it for a couple of months and am quite happy with it.
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Re: PERL IDE
by Art_XIV (Hermit) on Nov 26, 2003 at 15:31 UTC

    Check the entry "Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?" in perlfaq3

    I prefer the highly cross-platform vim, myself.

    Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
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Re: PERL IDE
by hiseldl (Priest) on Nov 26, 2003 at 16:55 UTC

    I use emacs for development, and it should work on Solaris as well. If you need a GUI debugger, you could try the Perl/Tk debugger. This would require that you install Perl/Tk, though. 

    >perl -d:ptkdb hello_world.pl

    [download]

    Update: the Tk debugger should be installed when you install Tk, but just in case, you can find it here. There's also the node Perl IDEs and Editors update.

    Cheers!

    --
    hiseldl
    What time is it? It's Camel Time!

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Re: PERL IDE
by Roger (Parson) on Nov 27, 2003 at 00:54 UTC
    Emac ... The 'swiss-army-knife' for Unix
    nedit ... An excellent visual editor for X
    ...

    Personally I use Emac sometimes, but most of time I edit my Unix files with Windows based editor 'ConText', via SMB mount, combined with 'ddd' visual debugger for Perl/C/etc.

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