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mod_perl digest
March 18, 2001 - March 24, 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 news
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 Apache::ProxyRewrite 0.14 - a reverse-proxy that will rewrite URLs
embedded in HTML documents [7]
o Three useful but non-mod_perl modules were announced to the list:
- MLDBM::Sync 0.07, a locking wrapper around MLDBM [8]
- Tie::Cache 0.15, a memory size limiting LRU cache [9]
- Cache::Cache 0.06 - successor to File::Cache and IPC::Cache [10]
mailing list highlights
o An interesting and very detailed thread on the exact nature of the
sync() call in DB_File [11]
o Here is a code snippet that shows how to access the request
object in XS [12]
o Take23.org now has an IRC channel [13]
nothing else terribly intersting ;)
news
o Netcraft mod_perl statistics are out for February [14]
mod_perl: 2,203,353 Domains, 230,502 IP Addresses
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [15]
o mod_perl documentation [16]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [17]
o mod_perl homepage [18]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [19]
o mod_perl list archives [20] [21]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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/thilparfum
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/nenfouphoi
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/zhondeehen
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/bloohulplah
[11] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/toupringtwand
[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/sparsatah
[13] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/tufrimclee
[14] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98526888732735&w=2
[15] http://perl.apache.org
[16] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[17] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[18] http://www.modperl.com
[19] http://www.take23.org
[20] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[21] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
