[Qgis-developer] Embed Perl Scripting

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Helmut

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Helmut Seidel M.A. <info at knowhow-la.de> wrote:
> But as I developed several GIS-database-applications (around 100.000 lines
> of code) in Perl which I would like to interact with QGis I wonder if it is
> possible to embed a perl-interpreter into qgis like it is done with the
> python interpreter. As I have never done anything alike before I'm not sure
> about the amount of work I'd have to put into it. From what I read so far it
> seems not too much work(?).
>
> So I would appreciate any comments and tipps (or even warnings) before I try
> to embark on a never ending story ...

Embedding the interpreter itself is probably not a big task, much more
time is necessary to provide bindings of QGIS API to Perl. For Python
we have used SIP and PyQt, I am not sure if such tools exist also for
Perl... probably SWIG would be of some use.

Martin