Re: Is "The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" from No Starch Press good for gnome-perl?

On Jun 29, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Brian McGonigle wrote:

> I was wondering if "The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" would be 
> any good for someone with no experience in C trying to learn 
> gnome-perl. Any recommendations?

in that the book will explain how to use the Gnome and Gtk+ libraries 
in concept as well as syntax, yes, the book will be helpful.  i 
seriously doubt it has any specifics on the perl bindings.  then again, 
i have never seen the book in question, so i could be wrong.


> Also, if I have GTK+ for Win32 can I use gnome-perl? I hoping there's 
> a binary package somewhere if I can.

mmmm, yes, mostly.  remember, only some of the gnome libraries have 
been ported to native win32.  Glib and Gtk2 are known to work; i've 
heard reports that Gtk2::GladeXML and Gnome2::Canvas also work on 
native win32 but i have never tried them myself.

our faq mentions wayne keenan's win32 binaries for 1.02x; however, 
wayne's been busy and hasn't been able to update them.  arnold putz 
(whitewindow in irc) has been trying to build current win32 PPMs this 
weekend and needs somebody to test them; perhaps you'd be the perfect 
guinea pig!

if you use cygwin and X, all of gnome-perl is available to you from the 
cygwin-gnome2 project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwin-gnome2/

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