Padre - Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment

Take a look at the current state of Padre on our Screenshots page.

Features

Project Objectives

Some of the objectives of the project:

• Make it very easy to start using it, especially for Perl development.
  • Easy installation on Windows, Linux and other operating systems
  • By default work like notepad, hide most of the options.
• Make it very Perl beginner friendly
  • Out of the box allow running Perl scripts, have Perl documentation.
  • Provide a variety of assistance options to help with learning Perl.
  • Auto-detect as much as possible, to provide a Do What I Mean working style.
• Support for development of large cross language applications
  • Project-specific editor configuration.
  • Boilerplate creation for CPAN modules, Catalyst applications, and more.
  • Extend Padre with plugins to add new interfaces and functionality.
  • Support for languages that are often used with Perl (SQL, Javascript, HTML, XML)
  • Support for other programming languages (Python, PHP, Ruby etc.)
  • Support for Parrot and Perl 6

How do I try it?

See Download for installation instructions

Getting involved - How can I participate?

See also http://padre.perlide.org/getting_involved.html

Setting up a development environment

See Howto

Mailing lists

• Padre development mailing list  http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
• SVN commit mailing list  http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-commit
• Trac changes mailing list  http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-trac
• Padre news mailing list  http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-news

IRC

Padre's IRC channel is very active, and the best first point of call for questions or assistance.

We hang out on  #padre on irc.perl.org

It is being logged here:  http://irclog.perlgeek.de/padre/today

You can also use the web-based IRC client on Mibbit from our IRC page

Support

You can try our mailing list or IRC, but I am sure the  PerlMonks will be glad to help you as well.

History

Before 7 August 2008 the source code was kept in a different SVN repository under various names. There was no easy way to transfer it so I started this repository from scratch. That pre-history can be found here:

http://svn1.hostlocal.com/szabgab/trunk/Wx-Tutorial -r 941

http://svn1.hostlocal.com/szabgab/trunk/App-Editor -r 1080

The About page has links to related blog posts from before Padre was released.

Release History

Padre is written in Perl 5 using wxWidgets