[Za-pm] Anyone interested in an OS South African project? (a.k.a. keeping this list alive)

[Pieter le Roux]

I don't think you looked at the products I mentioned.... :-)

On Sunday 25 September 2005 01:42, Jan Henkins wrote:
> Hello Pieter,
>
> Pieter le Roux wrote:
> >Up to now I have been using database design tools that run on Window$
> > because I could not find any similar Open Source products - they are
> > either too complicated or too simple.
> >
> >The tools I have used are:
> >
> >X-Case (http://www.f1tech.com/xCase/) - dropped that because the upgrades
> > are expensive and the program (or Window$) crashes at least once a day.
> >
> >At the moment I am using Case Studio (http://www.casestudio.com) and it
> > works fine, but it is the only program I use on a PC (personal computer)
> > - I realy want to upgrade the PC to a BC (business computer) .
> >
> >I have designed/developed or got from CPAN most of the bits and pieces
> > needed to develop a similar product - I use Xase Studio's xml output to 
> > integrate with DBI and Catalyst but  it  would be nice to have a system
> > with a GUI like Case Studio running in Perl that will generate DBI (or
> > Class::DBI) and Catalyst::Data modules.
> >
> >The part I really need help with is the GUI.
> >
> >Anyone interested in helping?
>
> OK, in terms of getting a workable prototype going, why do you want to
> bother with a GUI at this early stage? Reason for this question is that
> there are fabulous TUI  (text user interface) libs available on CPAN
> that can help you get going in the meantime, while it will help you to
> concentrate in getting your backend functionality going properly. For
> instance, one of my personal favourites on Linux/Unix is the Dialog
> module, enabling you to build really nice text interfaces including
> mouse-aware buttons.
>
> A quick search on CPAN deeped up these:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~tsch/Gtk2-1.100/pm/SimpleMenu.pm
> Simple GTK2-based menus (cross-platform, since GTK2 is available for
> Win32/Linux/Mac). This could be just the ticket, the framework looks
> nice and simple enough for somebody with no GUI-design experience.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~marcus/Curses-UI-0.95/lib/Curses/UI/Menubar.pm
> Ncurses-based stuff, works wonderfully under Linux, although I'm not too
> sure how well it will work in Win32. AFAIK there isn't a "Curses"
> framework for Win32, although I might be wrong.
>
> Anyway, the above two links could save you some time in getting your app
> in a presentable state. Once you've got a complete usable program
> (primitive or not, doesn't matter), I would suggest you start a project
> somewhere in a place like Sourceforge, Savannah
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/) or BerliOS (http://www.berlios.de/) so
> that you can build a proper community around your app. At the very least
> you can then make use of the versioning tools and things like mailing
> lists etc, which could prove handy. All three these sites have oodles of
> bandwidth, which makes it handy in case you get Slashdotted or Freshmeated.