Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xforms4Perl 0.7
From: Martin Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: 14 May 1997 13:58:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

ANNOUNCING The availability of version 0.7 of Xforms4Perl, an extension
to
Perl that provides access to the xforms GUI api library and,
consequently,
opens up the ability to write sophisticated X applications completely in
Perl. 

This is version 0.7 which provides access to practically the entire
xforms
api as delivered by its current public version 0.86, the two most
recent testing versions, 0.84 and 0.85, and the previous public release,
0.81. It requires Perl 5.002 or later. Various platform-specific
bugs and issues have been resolved with this release, making it a more
solid performer on such platforms as HP-UX and SGI. Name spaces are now
completely in line with CPAN standards - a script provide conversion
facilities for applications that use previous versions.

Xforms4Perl comes with a directory of demonstration programs that range
from simple api examples to full-fledged system utilities and
applications.

The package is available as a tar archive by FTP from:

        ftp.demon.co.uk /pub/perl/perl

and

        $CPAN/authors/Martin_Bartlett

named Xforms4Perl-0.7.tgz, and as a Linux RPM from

        ftp.redhat.com /pub/redhat/devel/powercd/RPMS/<platform name>

named Xforms4Perl-0.7-1.<platform name>.rpm

Xforms itself is available from 

        ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms

and as a linux  RPM from the Red Hat location mentioned above.

For those who use David Hind's pcmcia package in Linux, xforms is the
toolkit that was used to build the cardinfo GUI panel. 

This is the version of Xforms4Perl that is required to use the Xforms
component of Randy Ray's X11:fvwm perl extension (thanks to him for
copious HP-UX testing and suggestions resulting from that).

Support is via the xforms mailing list, comp.lang.perl.modules, and
e-mail
(to the address below).

Licensed under the GNU public license. Details delivered with the
package.
 
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