Perl help browser suppresses linebreaks

[Sewi]

• Type the name of any installed Module (tried SVN::Class and some eBay API calls)
• place the cursor into the module name
• press F2

The POD of the module is shown, but it's missing any linebreaks (\n)

Ubuntu 10, Padre trunk r14125

[zenogantner]

Cannot reproduce here, but another user reported it in IRC, too.

Ubuntu 10.04 with Padre from trunk r15952.

System Info:

Perl 5.10.1 
Wx 0.99 
wxWidgets 2.8.10
Alien::wxWidgets 0.51

[zenogantner]

screenshot of the problem by user gyles19 on IRC

[gyles19]

I found bug http://padre.perlide.org/trac/ticket/941 (closed as invalid) which indicates the problem is the version of wx installed on ubuntu. The current build packages available from ubuntu repos is 0.96.

It appears that the wx version tests in padre are specific to windows, and so aren't triggering any warnings when non-windows platforms launch padre.

I had to manually download and build a bunch of stuff, starting with wxperl, from CPAN just to get padre running on Ubuntu 10.04. The ubuntu padre package is badly broken. But nothing pointed me to go rebuild a newer version of libwx-perl (as it's known in debian packaging.)

After a great deal of searching I finally found the current version on CPAN: ​http://search.cpan.org/~mdootson/Wx-0.9901/

I will build this and see if it solves the issue.

[gyles19]

Yes. Installing Wx-0.9901 fixed the help text display issue.

Has anyone created a Bundle::Padre? I searched CPAN but didn't find one.

[azawawi]

So basically it is Debian Padre packaging issue, right?

[gyles19]

No. From what I read in the older bug report, Padre is not version checking Wx anywhere but on Windows. It needs to version check Wx on all platforms.

The Debian packaging being broken revealed the Padre issue.

[azawawi]

Fixed in r16485

Thanks for your patience
Ahmad M. Zawawi (azawawi)