Padre 0.53 Stand Alone for Linux on perl 5.11.3 released

As Peter Lavender has announced Padre 0.53 was released a few hours ago. Among many other things it contains the first version of a built-in debugger. You can download and install Padre from CPAN but if your are using Linux there is also a new binary package that you can download and use.

It is a very experimental package, not only because of Padre but because it is using perl 5.11.3 the recently released monthly build of perl 5.12 to be.

While building it I encountered a few problems related to changes made to perl. These changes might affect your code as well. You might want to try your modules to see how they behave on 5.11.3.

One of the modules was generating warnings like this:

   defined(%hash) is deprecated at .../SomeFile.pm line 82.
   

Another one was generating warnings like this:

  UNIVERSAL->import is deprecated and will be removed in a future perl
     at .../SomeFile.pm line 7
  

They passed their tests but Padre, during its own tests checks if there are not unexpected warnings using Test::NoWarnings and fails if there are. So I had to patch those modules in order to allow the installation to proceed. ( Reports were sent to the authors so I hope these will be fixed soon ).

Test::Exception failed one of its test. I force installed the module and reported to the author and to p5p where I quickly got a response from David Golden pointing out that there is already a fixed developer version on CPAN.

I also had to patch one of the tests of Padre due to a change in a warning text perl 5.11.3 gives. The same change was then committed to the version control of Padre.

It was a bit annoying to hunt down the issues as my build system does not report correctly yet but in the end I got it working. When I tried to install the Perl 6 and the Catalyst plugins I encountered further issues so I decided to postpone them.

If you want to try it now, look at the instructions:

Download

Download perl-5.11.3-xl-0.03.tar.gz (File size: 29,002,849)

  wget http://perlide.org/download/binary/perl-5.11.3-xl-0.03.tar.gz

Unzip it

  tar xzf  perl-5.11.3-xl-0.03.tar.gz
  

and You can run the padre.sh file:

  ./perl-5.11.3-xl-0.03/perl/bin/padre.sh 

Enjoy and report any issues.