Adam,
Thank you so much for posting this to the list. The project needs the
help of some of the Perl and Apache Module gurus I hope frequent this
list. Aaron posted the source to github, but last I heard github had
somehow managed to corrupt the source. So, Aaron should now be working
on either fixing it, or finding a new home for the project's source
code.
The current status of the project is that what we have works with
simple CGI's, but there are some many system calls (e.g. perl's die
function) that need to be given special handling, something that
mod_perl also must do as best I understand it.
I will poke and prod Aaron to chime in to give us a more detailed
explanation of the kind of help we need.
I have been following a number of conversations on the Internets about
mod_perlite, and while the initial motivation behind this module/
project was performance, I think if it is successful, the boon will
prove to be ease of installation and management of CGI scripts.
Thank you again Adam, and I will do what I can to keep this list up to
date on the project's progress. Feel free to also visit http://www.modperlite.org/
Ciao,
Byrne
On Jan 25, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Adam Prime wrote:
I'm not sure how many of you are aware of chromatic's previous article
about "5 things perl 5 needs right now", or about the mod_perlite
project that was spawned by some people from sixapart, but chromatic
has
published another article that's basically a conversation with Byrne
Reese and Aaron Stone, aka the guys at 6A that are/were working on
mod_perlite. Anyway, it might be interesting to some people on the
list:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01/cgi-is-dead-mod-perlite-is-ali.html
The project is supposed to basically be mod_perl's registry only,
packaged such that it would be possible to get mass virtual hosting
providers to install it. The core motivation being so that 6A's
Customers running MT in that architecture can get better performance.
The difference between it and FastCGI being that you can run unaltered
code originally destined for CGI, just like Registry or PerlRun.
Adam
