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mod_perl digest
March 11, 2001 - March 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: 1.3.19 (released February 28, 2001) [3]
- development: 1.3.20-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6 (released March 23, 2000) [5]
- development: 5.7 [6]
module announcements
o Two non-mod_perl but interesting modules were announced this week
- Tie::DxHash 0.91 - helps in using hashes in <Perl> sections when
you need to both preserve insertion order and have multiple
keys [7]
- Cache::Cache 0.04 - successor to File::Cache and IPC::Cache [8]
mailing list highlights
Another slow week on the list...
o The big discussion this week was about PerlSendHeader
documentation [9]
o There was an OT but interesting thread on whether lexical
variables are faster than global variables [10]. This
response in particular may be of interest to those who
want to know more about perlguts [11]
o A patch was submitted that may be of interest to anyone
using Apache::StatINC with Apache::ASP [12]
o 63 patches to mod_perl 2.0 this week [13]
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [14]
o mod_perl documentation [15]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [16]
o mod_perl homepage [17]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [18]
o mod_perl list archives [19] [20]
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/jeldcricrel
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/danfrorpil
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/pludwerglul
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/jimpspolwhim
[11]
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/jimpspolwhim/20010315104719.B650
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[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/munglandspen
[13] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&r=1&w=2&b=200103
[14] http://perl.apache.org
[15] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[16] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[17] http://www.modperl.com
[18] http://www.take23.org
[19] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[20] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
