How do I get Perl::Critic to work with E.P.I.C and eclipse?

Question

I'm running eclipse Galileo with EPIC 0.5.46 and ActiveState ActivePerl 5.10.0, on WinXP SP3.

I just downloaded Perl::Critic using the package manager, and integrated it to eclipse using the appropriate Properties page.

I can run Perl::Critic just fine from my eclipse source context menu; it runs. But it doesn't put any markers in my source code in eclipse... in other words, I can't see its results. (My Perl ain't that good.)

Please, if you tell me to RTFM, please point out which FM to R. Thanks for any pointers.

Answer 1

See this section in the Perl::Critic man page. Until I discovered this note, I lived happily in the delusion that my code was good enough to pass Perl::Critic. And then I installed criticism only to discover the truth :)

You need to add the line use criticism 'gentle'; at the top of your code. Change gentle to brutal if that suits you. Running the script or module inside EPIC then shows Perl::Critic's comments in the console below the code pane.

My EPIC version is 0.6.35 BTW. I use Linux. See last section in this thread for a possible solution with Windows

Answer 2

Upgrade to EPIC 0.6.55 on the testing branch to get Perl::Critic working.

I was using EPIC on Galileo where PerlCritic was working. After installing Kepler Perl::Critic didn't work anymore. After hours I discovered that I had been on the testing branch before, where Perl::Critic works, but the new installation of Kepler put me back to "stable" EPIC 0.5.46 which seems to haven't been updated for a long time.

My config is:

• Windows ActivePerl 5.14.2
• Perl::Critic 1.121 installed with ppm under "c:\perl\site\bin"
• In EPIC preferences, the Perl::Critic location is set to "c:\perl\site\bin\perlcritic"