> Because there are no standard solutions to these problems, developers > have to go through these steps: > * locating candidate modules (finding them on CPAN)
My (one, small) jab at CPAN: I wish I could do something like "apt-get dist-upgrade" with it, so I could update all my modules to the most recent bug-fixed versions. Maybe this is something that Larry's take on more module metadata in Perl 6 will help out with. Anyhow... > My personal preference would be to do: persistence, messaging, > transactions, mail. I'd only go for application and web environments. > I'd only write modules--re-engineering CPAN requires too much work and > too much politics. > > Thoughts? Two technical ones: Where does tiering and application servers fit into all of this? My take on something that I really wish shouldn't require a brain is distributing an application across a bunch of servers. I don't want to figure out load balancing. I don't want to worry about managing data persistence and transactions across N servers. I just want it to work. > * should we write Perlish modules or reimplement Java APIs? Depends. If you want to go for fear, then reimplement. If you want greed, then go Perlish. (Will he choose the unworkable option, or the one that could get us into legal trouble? "Let's do both!") An organization one: How does all this technology happen? We've gotten amazing places with the bottom-up evolutionary model of Perl development. Does this model have enough "oomph" to overcome the potential barrier of what we're looking at now, or do we need a skyhook? (Ugh. I think I mixed in metaphors from 3 different domains of human endeavour. If anyone needs an explanation, please consult 3 humans.) Please note that I'm not saying that evolutionary development doesn't have the required oomph. I'm just asking for help in seeing how it does. Cheers, Richard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Dice * Personal 416 841 7365 * Fax 416 841 7364 ShadNet Creator * http://shadnet.shad.ca/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Occasional Writer, HotWired * http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ "squeeze the world 'til it's small enough to join us heel to toe" - jesus jones
