Hello,
just a (hopefully ;-) short report of Event presentation at the conference. Actually
there were two talks about the module. I first introduced basic concepts and usage.
This was a compact version of the tutorial presented in about 45 minutes. I tried to
point out that event driven programming can be used to solve various problems, not
only graphical user interaction. Immediately after that, Marc Lehmann gave a clear,
descriptive and interesting presentation of an application example. He used Event to
scan several hundred news servers simultaniously. I think this combined talk package
was ideal to give people an idea what Event provides, how easy it is to use, how
powerful features it offers and which type of applications can be written with it.
The feedback showed me that people were really interested. Several people are going to
check now if Event can be a solution to solve specific problems. Possibly we'll hear
from them on the list.
The following may give you an impression what people were interested in related to
Event. Of course, this is only a special spotlight.
One question was portability. It was suggested to ask J. Dubuois (?) from ActiveWare
for assistence in NT ports because of its knowledge of NT internals. I just report
this without knowing him but I can imagine that ActiveWare people are specialized in
this field and have an interest of seeing Perl modules running under "their" platform.
Maybe this helps Event as well.
The question of Perl/Tk compatibility is related to the former one, I think.
Somebody wanted to know if Event is used in LWPng. I did not know the module, but now
after a first look at the tarball I don't think so.
One person knew a new UNIX kernel mechanism which actively - if I understood and noted
this correctly - can inform processes when certain handles are used. He asked if Event
supports this mechanism.
Jochen
