What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice?

stvn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been using Project Builder (the old Apple Developer Tools IDE) for a while now, but I don't think Apple is supporting it anymore in favor of XCode, and XCode is too Cocoa centric for my taste.

I would prefer not to pay for anything of course, so that rules Affrus out. I am currently downloading Eclipse and the EPIC plugin to try out, anyone have any thoughts on that please feel free to share.

In general, what is the tool of choice for the discriminating OS X Perl Hackers out there?

UPDATE
Eclipse 3.0 seems nice, but EPIC (the perl plugin) does not seem to work correctly with it. I tried Eclipse 2.1 and EPIC worked, but 2.1 was slow as dirt. Does anyone out there have any experience with getting EPIC to work with Eclipse 3.0?

-stvn

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Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by Nkuvu (Priest) on Jun 29, 2004 at 01:37 UTC
emacs. Using the binary from http://www.mindlube.com/products/emacs/ on Panther. The scroll bar is funky weird/pretty close to non-functional. But I use the keyboard for navigation anyway. Oh and I personally dislike XCode. I just did some work on a Cocoa app, so it made sense to use XCode. But the evil editor couldn't keep up with my typing. And my typing speed isn't particularly fast. Bah.	[reply]
•Re^2: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 29, 2004 at 01:51 UTC
If you have the developer tools installed, CVS-tip builds directly on OSX and produces a carbon binary with no problems. setenv CVSROOT :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs cvs checkout emacs cd emacs # I put my installation in /opt/emacs, and the X build seems to mess u +p: ./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs --without-x make bootstrap install # one time only: ln -s `pwd`/mac/Emacs.app ~/Desktop/ [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by Nkuvu (Priest) on Jun 29, 2004 at 02:03 UTC
Excellent, thanks for the info.	[reply]
Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by DrHyde (Prior) on Jun 29, 2004 at 07:59 UTC
A combination of several Terminals, vim, and paper and pencil.	[reply]
Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by gaal (Parson) on Jun 29, 2004 at 10:46 UTC
For what it's worth, EPIC's failure (epic failure? oops) with new Eclipses is temporary. If you use vim, be sure to check out Vi::QuickFix.	[reply]
Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Jun 29, 2004 at 12:20 UTC
Personally, I love XCode, but then I remember having to write X-Windows/C++ code back in the day, so I might be a bit biased. But with Perl and shell scripts, it's still Terminal.app and vim for me. I guess there are other tools out there, but I don't know if the time spent getting them and getting used to them would buy me anything. -- tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub) And remember, if he succeeds, so what. - Chick McGee	[reply]
Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by KeighleHawk (Scribe) on Jun 30, 2004 at 00:31 UTC
I'm not an OSX guy, but I believe EPIC works on earlier 3.0 versions such as M8 maybe. I believe there was something "surprising" in the latest version of Eclipse that caused some breakage. I am using 2.1 so don't pay much attention to the 3.0 discussions. The EPIC home page does have some forums at: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=75859 You might find better info there...	[reply]
Re: What is your OS X Perl IDE of choice? by nothingmuch (Priest) on Jul 01, 2004 at 10:24 UTC
I use the Carbon port of gvim (build it myself, most of the time), along with the terminal. It works very well, and has good overall integration (scroll wheel, pasteboard, etc). If you are one of the select many which can get along with vi, then I would reccomend it. SubEthaEdit is also popular, methinks. Free for non commercial use. I've never used it, though. -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply]