Request: Perl and Perl-Gtk bindings

[Daniel Kasak]

OK. That's a step forwards from my perspective :) Thanks.

Dan

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex and I have discussed this at GUADEC, two weeks ago; it should be
> possible to include Perl in the next freedesktop.org Platform runtime,
> but including the Perl modules needed by the bindings without any
> application actively using them is kind of problematic, as they have
> the tendency to string along a bunch of dependencies themselves, and
> make the runtimes bigger than necessary.
>
> With Perl in the runtime it should be possible to bundle the GTK+
> bindings for Perl with your app; the introspection data is there, and
> it's pretty trivial to bundle the Perl modules wrapping it. The only
> two big bits would be perl-Glib and perl-Glib-Object-Introspection, as
> they both require building C code, and require additional Perl modules
> to find their dependencies (ExtUtils::Depends and ExtUtils::PkgConfig)
> as well as a Perl module to generate its build file
> (ExtUtils::MakeMaker).
>
> Any flatpak-builder manifest for a Perl app would require those bits.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>
> On 9 August 2017 at 00:18, Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I've unfortunately not been able to build Perl as a dependency in a
>> Flatpak app ( see previous post ), and I've been told this is probably
>> the wrong approach anyway. Any chance of getting Perl and the Perl-Gtk
>> bindings included in a runtime?
>>
>> Dan
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