in reply to Re^2: OT: Stupid User Interfaces
in thread OT: Stupid User Interfaces

I hadn't missed that it was very old. But I googled for Perl Qt and that was what came up. It looked right and has nothing to indicate that it isn't the latest version. I checked specifically on the CPAN page for the usual "Latest version" link and there was none. I'm not surprised that there is a later version. Nor am I surprised that the docs I pointed to have not been amended to indicate that they are deprecated and giving a link to something better, but I am disappointed.

By the same token, while the docs you link to are more verbose and therefore I haven't read them as thoroughly, I don't see anything in them, either, hinting at what Qt actually does. Again, I'm disappointed but not surprised. A problem I have seen in lots of documentation is that it sends the user on a massive yak shaving exercise making it extremely hard and time consuming to find the precise document that tells me what I want to know. If I were thinking of trying to contribute to the Perl community by improving documentation, Qt could not be a candidate module as I still can't see where to start or what it is supposed to do.

I did mention that I tend to rant about documentation, didn't I? I think I'd better stop here. :-)

Regards,

John Davies

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Re^4: OT: Stupid User Interfaces
by Anonymous Monk on May 31, 2017 at 13:56 UTC
    I don't see anything in them, either, hinting at what Qt actually does.
    This drives me crazy. I like to check the recent uploads on CPAN, and I run into way too many modules that just say
    This module provides a Perl interface to the QtCore version 4 library.
    or some such. Come on, at least give me a hint what it's good for or where I can find more information.