== Padre - Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment ==

Take a look at the current state of Padre on our [http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/Screenshots Screenshots] page.

[wiki:Features]

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== 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 [wiki:Plugins 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
  * Support for Moose, Mouse and MooseX::Declare

== How do I try it? ==

See [wiki:Download] for installation instructions. And be sure to check out the [wiki:Documentation] for additional info.

== Getting involved - How can I participate? ==

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

=== Setting up a development environment ===

See [wiki:Howto]
 * SvnMimeTypes
  * Guide to setting mime types to enable pygments to display formatted code in trac. 
 * [wiki:PadrePluginDialog Padre::Plugin::Cookbook]
  * Series of Cookbooks to aid in Gui Plug-in development

== 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 [irc://irc.perl.org/%23padre #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 [http://padre.perlide.org/irc.html IRC] page


== Support ==
You can try our mailing list or IRC, but I am sure the [http://www.perlmonks.org/ 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 [http://padre.perlide.org/about.html About] page has links to related blog posts from before Padre was released.

[http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/Release_History Release History]

Padre is written in Perl 5 using [http://padre.perlide.org/trac/wiki/wxWidgets wxWidgets]