Hello, Danny,
> Is Event the best choice to recommend for event-driven programming? I
> see that there's also the EventServer module - but given that it hasn't
> changed in a few years, can we assume that it's obsolete? I also see
> that POE looks like a viable choice. It seems to be more complex than
> Event, but perhaps a more powerful option? POE's revision is less than
> 1, though, so is it still beta quality?
Event is an excellent choice for event driven programming in Perl, I do not
know of a better one. I used EventServer years ago but switched to Event
and never regret it. POE, as I understand its descriptions (I did not use
it yet), is not a pure event module but a framework built *on base* of
event loops (and Event is one of the choices there).
Unfortunately, Event is not running on all systems yet, so if you have to
make your scripts run on Windows other loops will have to be used there
(currently). Otherwise I personally recommend Event.
Jochen
