Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-17 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 01:45 PM 12/10/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: [much stuff snipped] Things I would never even try with java: 1) Talking any client/server protocol other than URLs. The perl mail/ftp modules are so easy to use and they work great. I

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jim Woodgate wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can do the twostage server if you are short on memory, speed is important and usage of active content is relatively low. Setup a mod_proxy and stripped down apache for port 80 and mod_perl for port 8080 for

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-11 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 10:07 AM 12/11/2000 +, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jim Woodgate wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can do the twostage server if you are short on memory, speed is important and usage of active content is relatively low. Setup a mod_proxy and stripped down

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: Except that won't scale beyond 1 server... But that's the same thing with IPC shared mem modules yet people still use them on mod_perl for various tricks. It's still easier in Java to do that sort of sharing -- at least it is for me. As always,

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-11 Thread Jim Woodgate
Matt Sergeant writes: Except that won't scale beyond 1 server... If I needed to go beyond one server in java, I would probably look at something like Objectspace Voyager, which is the easiest to use orb I've ever seen. Is there anything similar in perl? I'd love to try it out! -- [EMAIL

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 09:27 AM 12/6/00 +, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I haven't looked at AO or AxKit, but if I can untar either one of them and just get to work, that will rule. You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 12:06 AM 12/6/00 -0600, Jim Woodgate wrote: Chris Winters writes: Along with the open-source Servlet/JSP/Web Engine servers (among others): Apache Tomcat: http://jakarta.apache.org/ Jetty: http://jetty.mortbay.com/ I'm currently using the Tomcat at work, and I have to say

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
I don't mean to naysay it, but this is going to start getting quite binary specific. I guess you could maintain an RPM for Linux, but beyond that it seems quite difficult. And even if you maintain it as an RPM for Linux, do you make your own Perl distro with it or use RedHat's crappy distro?

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 01:05 PM 12/5/00 -0600, Jay Jacobs wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. 2. We want more developers, so

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 02:01 PM 12/6/00 -0800, brian moseley wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Aaron E. Ross wrote: while the install and auto configure part is not very glamorous, the possibility of being able to untar one package to get mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, transaction management, data

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Jim Woodgate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can do the twostage server if you are short on memory, speed is important and usage of active content is relatively low. Setup a mod_proxy and stripped down apache for port 80 and mod_perl for port 8080 for example. Proxy certain urls to the 8080 and you are

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread spam
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I'm currently using the Tomcat at work, and I have to say that although I really love perl and mod_perl, there are real advantages to using java. Over the past couple of years that I've been mostly lurking on this list there have been a couple

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Ask Bjoern Hansen sent the following bits through the ether: Talarian have a Perl API for SmartSockets. I would think they have for their "SmartMQ" thingy too. If not then it's probably easy to make. (rapidly going OT) There's a simple Perl interface to http://www.spread.org/ which works

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Jim Woodgate
Matthew Kennedy writes: If I were developing an application which fit well into the two-tier model however, a mod_perl based plan would be my first preference -- development time is shorter than JSP/Servlet and maintainability is _at_least_ comparible. I would add that the "java is

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Let me stright things out a bit, so you won't get misleaded by my post as a marketing call. What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we --

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: The real question is for someone to undertake the Safe module and make it working for mod_perl. I think we have discussed this before. I don't remember what was the conclusion. That its pretty hard to do, and requires Safe holes to be any use for

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stas Bekman wrote: Let me stright things out a bit, so you won't get misleaded by my post as a marketing call. What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. 2. We

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: [...] consider a scenario in which somebody uses a web interface to signal an action, which is placed into a message queue. on the other end of that queue, a service handles the event with a transaction that spans multiple third tier systems. this

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 07:12 AM 12/7/00 -0500, barries wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:30:53AM -0500, Marc Spitzer wrote: the only thing I would add is DBI and DBD:::CSV, No joins. Therefore not very useful. Actually joins are over-rated for most simple apps. It's very easy to make a calendar, address book

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron E. Ross
at a time earlier than now, kevin montuori wrote: Aaron E Ross writes: aer the possibility of being able to untar one package to get aer mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, [c.] is very glamorous! agreed. but fundamentally impossible. what database are you going

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread martin langhoff
"Aaron E. Ross" wrote: database abstraction and connection pooling = DBI session management = Apache::Session load balancing = mod_backhand?? data relational mapping = Tangram or Alzabo templates or

Re: [OT]Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Robin Berjon
At 14:47 06/12/2000 -0800, ed phillips wrote: Aristotle from the Ars Rhetorica on money: Money will not make you wise, but it will bring a wise man to your door. :) -- robin b. Forty two. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Jimi Thompson
Matt, Everything required to make the module work ought to be included in the package or at least cross referenced to it. I have been having a problem in which I have had to manually resolve module dependencies on a Solaris 2.6 box. It went through several layers with several candidates for

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jimi Thompson wrote: Matt, Everything required to make the module work ought to be included in the package or at least cross referenced to it. I have been having a problem in which I have had to manually resolve module dependencies on a Solaris 2.6 box. It went

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Matthew Kennedy
"Bruce W. Hoylman" wrote: "Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip Matthew compiled enterprise app might only be 300Kb (and not just a Matthew "report queue manager"). And 500Mb of memory? That's Matthew tuppence in the server world anyway. This happens

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Marc Spitzer
, 7. December 2000 7:12 Subject: Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection) On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:30:53AM -0500, Marc Spitzer wrote: the only thing I would add is DBI and DBD:::CSV, No joins. Therefore not very useful. you get a basic prototyping db and you can

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Jimi Thompson
ies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mod_perl list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Marc Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7. December 2000 7:12 Subject: Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection) On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:30:53AM -0500, Marc Spitzer wrote:

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Marc Spitzer
installed the package(s) you need. marc - Original Message - From: Jimi Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 7. December 2000 13:40 Subject: Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection) Marc, In order

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Eustace, Glen
This has been a really interesting thread. I would like to contribute my own experiences as I am currently sitting on both sides of the fence. In my spare time, what little there is, I operate a web hosting service for NZ Christian churches, organisations and ministries. This

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jimi Thompson wrote: Everything required to make the module work ought to be included in the package or at least cross referenced to it. Newer versions of CPAN resolve dependencies for you, and you can always make a Bundle:: for your project. - Perrin

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Woodgate
Chris Winters writes: Along with the open-source Servlet/JSP/Web Engine servers (among others): Apache Tomcat: http://jakarta.apache.org/ Jetty: http://jetty.mortbay.com/ I'm currently using the Tomcat at work, and I have to say that although I really love perl and mod_perl,

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jim Woodgate wrote: With a system like Tomcat running in a jvm outside of apache, you only have one jvm, and you get things like being able to share a cache between all sessions alot easier. [snip] That being said, I wonder how difficult it would be pull the perl

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 02:18 AM 12/6/2000 -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jim Woodgate wrote: With a system like Tomcat running in a jvm outside of apache, you only have one jvm, and you get things like being able to share a cache between all sessions alot easier. [snip] That being said, I

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, (Matthew Kennedy) wrote: Transaction support for your business logic is easy in J2EE. It's not clear how you do this in Perl? Use an RDBMS. You don't understand that it can have nothing to do with a RDBMS. I'm not talking about transaction control within the

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I haven't looked at AO or AxKit, but if I can untar either one of them and just get to work, that will rule. You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I don't believe shipping all those components in

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: Transaction support for your business logic is easy in J2EE. It's not clear how you do this in Perl? Use an RDBMS. what about transactions that

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: [coldfusion/php] how is mason not like this? It has no point-n-drool authoring tools. This is actually the killer app. Once this is done, Mason / other templating system of choice gets catapulted to the forefront MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick

J2EE and distributed commits (was Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Tim Sweetman
I'll bite, 'cuz I think I've run several times recently into this sort of issue. I've not done anything with J2EE, so there's a risk that I've misunderstood _that_. Now, from the top: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: With J2EE you get the complete illusion that you are doing txns

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I haven't looked at AO or AxKit, but if I can untar either one of them and just get to work, that will rule. You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 6 Dec 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I haven't looked at AO or AxKit, but if I can untar either one of them and just get to work, that will rule. You can't, but thats because I believe in the

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread barries
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:08:59PM +, Matt Sergeant wrote: We could do that with AxKit - just ship it with Apache, mod_perl, the whole lot. But I don't think that would appeal to Perl people somehow. Thoughts? We're not (really) talking about appealing to "Perl people" here, I think, but

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
barries [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you could release a source distro of same with a big, red "make" button on it that would allow folks on FreeBSD, debian, wherever to take a stab at it too, that would be icing on the cake. Me too ;-) I mean, what would the damage of a full-on,

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Robin Berjon
At 16:39 05/12/2000 -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: Someone else brought this up with me off the list. Briefly, I said that this doesn't usually happen with web sites for performance reasons and that major RDBMS vendors offer things like two-phase commit. But no, there is no perl transaction

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Woodgate
Dave Rolsky writes: The problem with them compared to mod_perl is that you don't have access to the server internals so you can really only affect the content handling phase. Is this the case with Tomcat as well? I know that you can communicate with the server in the request, it's not

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: With J2EE you get the complete illusion that you are doing txns across as many data sources on as many systems and vendors as you want, but behind the illusion there is the nonzero risk that the data is

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: Has anyone written a Perl IDE in Perl? i goofed around with a class browser/code generator a while back, but i lost interest. as i recall, #perl laughed at me when i suggested it :)

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I don't believe shipping all those components in AxKit (and there are a fair number required) is the right solution. Maybe I'm mistaken. that's why Bundle::AO is

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: I quite like the Zope model - a single distribution which just includes and installs everything you need in a single place. You get python, the httpd, the database, everything. Of course if you have more complex needs, like running Zope from within

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jim Woodgate wrote: I know that you can communicate with the server in the request, it's not totally stand-alone. But I haven't looked into putting in handlers in other phases... i believe with mod_jk there is a callback model, yes. but given tomcat's valve architecture,

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I don't believe shipping all those components in AxKit (and there are a fair number required) is the right solution.

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: What does Bundle::AO give you that setting PREREQ_PM correctly wouldn't? i don't know :) i use them both. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Bruce W. Hoylman
This debate has really hit some hot buttons. I love reading the exchanges as there are clearly some personal philosophies at work here. Ain't it great! "Michael" == Michael Robinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Give a man a dump truck full of leggos, motors and gears Michael and

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: [...] this is how we ship our products internally at cpth. we build perl, apache, 100 or so modules, and ~150 registry scripts. then we rpm the whole thing up. the operations team just has to: rpm -i /usr/local/webmail/current/bin/wmctl start.

Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: another option would be to use autoconf. wrap a configure script around your entire set of components. allow it to find and use whichever ones you've already got installed. have it build and install whatever you don't already have. not very tough.

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread William P. McGonigle
--- "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: Yup. Machine A is controlling a transaction across Machine X and Machine Y. A modifies a row in X and adds a row to Y. A commits X, which succeeds. A commits Y, which fails. Now what? A cannot guarantee a recovery on machine X because there might already be

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread barries
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:55:37PM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: Has anyone written a Perl IDE in Perl? Tom Christiansen wrote an IDE-like lash-up of vi and perl, IIRC, but I don't recall the specifics and I can't find in on-web right now. You might search the perl5-porters archives for

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Paul
--- Chris Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 'Java' and 'open-source' are not mutually exclusive :-) Hallelujah! I still prefer Perl, but this is news to me, and GOOD news! =o) [...] And the perception out there, unlike with mod_perl, is that you don't need to be a wizard to build such

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Kennedy
brian moseley wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: Has anyone written a Perl IDE in Perl? i goofed around with a class browser/code generator a while back, but i lost interest. as i recall, #perl laughed at me when i suggested it :) ActiveState has built an

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, This isn't a silly question. At least I hope it isn't. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: [snip,snip] A modifies a row in X and adds a row to Y. A commits X, which succeeds. A commits Y, which fails. The only thing that Machine A can do now is send an email to the DBA

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matthew Kennedy wrote: ActiveState has built an Perl/Python IDE out of Mozilla: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/index.html too bad it's windows only :/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Aaron E. Ross
at a time earlier than now, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: But I'd also like to point out, as Matt Sergeant said, this stuff is _really_ hard, and not very glamorous. I would've done much less of it while the install and auto configure part is not very

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Kennedy
"Bruce W. Hoylman" wrote: snip In my experience, these so-called enterprise solutions are just that ... a huge lathe, or whatever an end mill is. Their solution to even the most minute problem is to throw huge - I mean huge - application piece parts at it, hoping to bury it in the wizard

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Benjamin Trott
Perhaps part of this is that we simply need smarter configure/install methods. ... I've also dealt with this on another app I'm working on (currently under NDA) that requires a bunch of modules, a set of tables in a database, mod_perl, etc. I've been dealing w/ very similar issues in work

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Ged Haywood wrote: Hi there, This isn't a silly question. At least I hope it isn't. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: [snip,snip] A modifies a row in X and adds a row to Y. A commits X, which succeeds. A commits Y, which fails. The only thing that Machine A can do

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Robin Berjon
At 12:39 06/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: ActiveState has built an Perl/Python IDE out of Mozilla: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/index.html too bad it's windows only :/ That's bound to change. I think AS will release it on all platforms where Moz/Perl/Python run when

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Aaron E. Ross wrote: while the install and auto configure part is not very glamorous, the possibility of being able to untar one package to get mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, transaction management, data relational modeling/objects and a nice

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matthew Kennedy wrote: from CPAN, then good for you. I'm sure you can in some cases. I think mod_perl has done an excellent job of conquering the the two-teir web-based problems. I love tools such as Mason and Apache::ASP which ride on mod_perl. Perl-DBI is an excellent

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread brian moseley
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Aaron E. Ross wrote: while the install and auto configure part is not very glamorous, the possibility of being able to untar one package to get mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, transaction management, data relational modeling/objects and a nice

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread kevin montuori
Aaron E Ross writes: aer the possibility of being able to untar one package to get aer mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, [c.] is very glamorous! agreed. but fundamentally impossible. what database are you going to provide persistent connections to? mysql? not on my

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Jerrad Pierce
. Though there is no requiremenet for such. -Original Message- From: Robin Berjon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 4:41 PM To: brian moseley Cc: Matthew Kennedy; mod_perl list Subject: Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection At 12:39 06/12/2000 -0800, brian

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan Stitt
ActiveState has built an Perl/Python IDE out of Mozilla: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/index.html too bad it's windows only :/ It says at: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/index.html that it is cross platform for Windows, Linux, and Unix. The beta they have

[OT]Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread ed phillips
Aristotle from the Ars Rhetorica on money: Money will not make you wise, but it will bring a wise man to your door. Robin Berjon wrote: At 12:39 06/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: ActiveState has built an Perl/Python IDE out of Mozilla:

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Bruce W. Hoylman
"Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew I don't know where you got the 1GB disk requirement from? Matthew Even Weblogic's download is only 43Mb, jBoss' is about Matthew 6Mb. The Java Platform is somewhere between that. Your Matthew compiled enterprise app

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Marc Spitzer
to use it and that sold me. marc - Original Message - From: brian moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mod_perl list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6. December 2000 15:39 Subject: Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matthew

Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-06 Thread Marc Spitzer
, 6. December 2000 17:17 Subject: Re: Smart installing (Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection) Aaron E Ross writes: aer the possibility of being able to untar one package to get aer mod_perl w/ persistent db connections, [c.] is very glamorous! agreed. but fundamentally

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Nachbaur
I would tend to agree with this on several points, but I have a few things to add (I didn't want this to be a "Me Too!" post.) A lot of the mindshare for this space has been taken over by Java. While some of you out there have actually tried to implement something in Java, then ran screaming

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Wiswell, Virginia
with your hair on fire, others aren't so "Lucky". I've been researching ecommerce and content management solutions for my company (take a guess who), and the Java technologies are *filled* with marketing hype that makes all the business users drool. I almost bought into it completely.

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Wiswell, Virginia
how about creating partnerships with companies (o'reilly, red hat, va linux, etc.)? i get email all the time promoting products and if one sounds interesting, i usually follow the link to check it out, especially if it's free and will help me do my job faster and/or better. some press releases to

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Stas Bekman
Let me stright things out a bit, so you won't get misleaded by my post as a marketing call. What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. 2. We want more developers, so they

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Thomas J. Mather
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Michael Nachbaur wrote: I don't know what I'm getting at here, but I see that Perl is half a step behind Java in many ways, except for the performance issues (which perl is leagues ahead). For my company, we're probably going Java, but it sorta makes sense for us (we

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Jay Jacobs
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. 2. We want more developers, so they will write core mod_perl and 3rd party

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
people won't use the software if you don't give them a compelling reason. mod_perl and the higher layer systems that use it are not as easy to configure or program as php, and they have a lot less support from external software vendors or relevance inside engineering shops than java. we are

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Stas Bekman
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: people won't use the software if you don't give them a compelling reason. mod_perl and the higher layer systems that use it are not as easy to configure or program as php, and they have a lot less support from external software vendors or relevance

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Wiswell, Virginia
stas said: What we want is very simple. 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. 2. We want more developers, so they will write core mod_perl and 3rd party modules, again for us current

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: Therefore if the same job can be done with Perl and Java, why not to have your staff happy? That's the main point I think. Of course if the bussiness suffers because Perl is not good enough, that's a different point. Given that at least the same

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: infrastructure company based on mod_perl and mason. when we got down to it, the fundamental question was: why not just use java? and we couldn't find any answer other than "i like perl better". and that's not a reasonable business justification.

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread J. J. Horner
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:34:49AM -0800, brian moseley wrote: people won't use the software if you don't give them a compelling reason. mod_perl and the higher layer systems that use it are not as easy to configure or program as php, and they have a lot less support from external software

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, J. J. Horner wrote: Perhaps if someone makes a mod_perl based embedded scheme like Cold Fusion or PHP, that has some special hooks into Apache for performance that the other solutions don't offer. . . how is mason not like this? Honestly, though, I didn't believe the

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Dave Rolsky wrote: Each has its advantages. Perl is good for real programmers who are going to write code to actually solve a problem. Java is good for monkeys who think that buying a $100k app server and tweaking it via a monolithic API will give them what they want.

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Kennedy
"Thomas J. Mather" wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Michael Nachbaur wrote: I don't know what I'm getting at here, but I see that Perl is half a step behind Java in many ways, except for the performance issues (which perl is leagues ahead). For my company, we're probably going Java, but

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
Stas Bekman wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: people won't use the software if you don't give them a compelling reason. mod_perl and the higher layer systems that use it are not as easy to configure or program as php, and they have a lot less support from external

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: the availability of application server products in the java world is another example. go look at enhydra enterprise (http://www.enhydra.org/software/enhydraEnterprise/) and tell me that something like that exists in the perl world.

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread kevin montuori
brian moseley writes: bm i know there are several people on the list who swear by "all bm handlers, all the time". i've never heard anybody give a reason bm for that preference that actually made sense to me. i'm not sure about "all handlers, all the time" but a good deal of

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:40:47 -0800 (PST), brian moseley wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Dave Rolsky wrote: Each has its advantages. Perl is good for real programmers who are going to write code to actually solve a problem. Java is good for monkeys who think that buying a $100k app server

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Nachbaur
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Michael Nachbaur wrote: I don't know what I'm getting at here, but I see that Perl is half a step behind Java in many ways, except for the performance issues (which perl is leagues ahead). For my com

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, (Matthew Kennedy) wrote: I guess what I'm getting at is that I hear a lot of marketing hype about Java being a better "enterprise solution", but I'm curious as to what are the purely technical reasons for using Java over Perl. What exactly can you do in Java that you

RE: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: the availability of application server products in the java world is another example. go look at enhydra enterprise (http://www.enhydra.org/software/enhydraEnterprise/) and tell me that something like

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, kevin montuori wrote: i'm not sure about "all handlers, all the time" but a good deal of what i'm using mod_perl for is session management, credential maintenance, custom logging, on-the-fly compression, and other "housekeeping" tasks. i think

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
barries wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:10:01PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run into is XML. Yes, Perl has great XML modules, and many more promising ones. But where

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matthew Kennedy wrote: I've worked with both (Java 2 EE and tools like Apache::ASP/Mason). What people want out of an "enterprise solution" is a middle tier which is not tied into the presentation. When you free your process decisions from the presentation in that way, you

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