On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:47:52PM -0500, alex j avriette wrote: .... > course wrote the LittleEndian filter, and the napster server. I am very > impressed with it and want to contribute however I can. I suspect > finishing off PoCo::FTP would be useful to the project, but I'd have to > reach sungo to do that I suspect. Is sungo on list?
I don't know if sungo did something, but you could try a module i wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/poeftp. It works well so far. Data connections are missing and the API is quite raw atm but i like the cmd queue stuff somehow, and it works :) Finishing it should not be too much work. It mostly depends on the chosen interface, passing data packets as events is easy, interoperating with client session wheels isn't. I havent worked on it since I had no time and there were no urgent need. Additionaly I wanted to make it the test case for a coloured petri net implementation. I read about these some months ago and they should really help. Implementing it is not easy, the original implementation uses Standard ML and strong type checking and binding to tokens based on their values. A lot of the power results from that, yet I don't really know how to do it in Perl. Anyway, it could make POE programming a lot easier, concurrency related behaviour is much easier to get as a petri net. I hope that I can come up with something in the next 1 or 2 months, depends on the time and brain I got :) For example, it could remove all the ugly cmd chain/queue handling in the FTP module, all the internal states, race condition work arounds, ... torvald
