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mod_perl digest
February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o links
mod_perl status
o mod_perl
- stable: 1.25 (released January 29, 2001) [1]
- development: 1.25_01-dev [2]
o Apache
- stable: 1.3.17 (released January 29, 2001) [3]
- development: 1.3.18-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6 (released March 23, 2000) [5]
- development: 5.7 [6]
module announcements
o HTML::Embperl 1.3.1 - a module for embedding Perl code in HTML
pages that includes building pages/sites out of small reusable
objects/components and session handling [7]
o Apache::Toolkit (beta) - a mod_perl / Apache interface to
Template::Toolkit [8]
o AxKit 1.3 - XML Application Server for Apache. It provides
on-the-fly conversion from XML to any format, such as HTML, WAP or
text using either W3C standard techniques, or flexible custom
code. [9]
mailing list highlights
o A few non-mod_perl modules were announced this week on the list:
Cache::Cache 0.01 - successor to File::Cache and IPC::Cache [10]
lingerd 0.93 - daemon that manages closing sockets for Apache [11]
o $r->path_info seems to be gaining lots of attention of late. Here
is a thread that examines the difference between calling it when
the URI translates to a real file versus a virtual one. [12]
o Long thread of the week goes to trying to integrate cron-like
functionality within Apache [13]
o Apache::LogSTDERR is looking to a maintainer [14]
o The O'Reilly Network is looking for article authors [15] [16]
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [17]
o mod_perl documentation [18]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [19]
o mod_perl homepage [20]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [21]
o mod_perl list archives [22] [23]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
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[1] http://perl.apache.org/dist/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/
[3] http://www.apache.org/dist/
[4] http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-1.3/
[5] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#stable
[6] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#devel
[7] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/grunswundoi
[8] http://take23.org/news/2001/02/16/apacheTemplate.xml
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/jolbunyang
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/flouchypou
[11] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/zorprayplil
[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/stixfrandshul
[13] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/swydwozhoo
[14] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-dev&m=98219639413337&w=2
[15] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/breejexswee
[16] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/chuncrumrerd
[17] http://perl.apache.org
[18] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[19] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[20] http://www.modperl.com
[21] http://www.take23.org
[22] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[23] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
