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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 10:51 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Paul wrote: --- Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and mod_perl and have local Perlmongers lead classes. I have my slides

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interestingly, I recall sitting in on one of Bruce's courses at Web98 (We were teaching CGI/Perl for a day and he was teaching Intensive Java the day before)... Bruce said he has tried to learn Perl but just couldn't wrap his head around it. If

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 08:26 PM 12/5/00 +, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Eric Strovink wrote: A number of people have been beating around this bush, so why not just mow it down? A huge win for advocacy would be a small set of complete example applications targetted at, say, the last two

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 09:13 PM 12/5/00 +0100, you wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Eric Strovink wrote: A number of people have been beating around this bush, so why not just mow it down? A huge win for advocacy would be a small set of complete example applications targetted at, say, the last two RedHat

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread harilaos
One simple question please. How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl programmers? Thanks Stas Bekman wrote: I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish the mod_perl book, have some rest and make a push to mod_perl. Well best of luck hope you have

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, harilaos wrote: One simple question please. How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl programmers? If you are in a public transportation and you happen to overhear this kind of discussion: "...all children were running and refused to respond. I've

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Gunther Birznieks
The mod_perl programmer has no hair left. :) At 11:19 AM 12/8/2000 +, harilaos wrote: One simple question please. How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl programmers? Thanks Stas Bekman wrote: I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish the mod_perl

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Greg Cope
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: snippage I'd love that. In fact anything that anyone had waiting to go onto PerlMonth please drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll get you published. (assuming that PerlMonth isn't going to resurrect itself)

Re: Alliance? WAS - Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Robin Berjon
At 08:13 08/12/2000 +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: The could be although ActiveState has a product that competes with mod_perl on the NT side called PerlEx. What is too bad about the silence about the relationship is that PerlEx as a product could really benefit from evolving upon the back of

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread bthak
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Greg Cope wrote: I'd love that. In fact anything that anyone had waiting to go onto PerlMonth please drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll get you published. (assuming that PerlMonth isn't going to resurrect itself) Actually its kinda has been

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Paul
--- Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and mod_perl and have local Perlmongers lead classes. I have my slides from the University of Perl, which I'd

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: [me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: I would love to be able to list on my resumé that I was Perl and mod_perl certified. How about publicity in the form of a page listing certified Perl/modPerl coders on take23, with contact info if they like? Great for getting those job offers. We will be

[me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Paul
First, the gratuitous "me, too!" As fair warning, there's little more than that in terms of valid content here, but if you're still interested in reading the rest --- "J. J. Horner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:26PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Gunther" ==

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: [me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Jay Jacobs
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:26PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I mean, until I can demonstrate that people with certs are likely to get hired faster or make more money, what's the point? As it is now, good mod_perl people are hard enough to find that the jobseeker

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Patrick wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:52:01PM +0100, Stas Bekman took time to write: Your problem is that you try to use the precompiled broken packages provided by distros. If I can jump... I must say that I *never* had a problem with Debian packages of mod_perl. Maybe RedHat

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Tim Sweetman
Jim Winstead wrote: (of course, this only addresses scaling to a breadth of users, not scaling into the enterprise area. that just requires real marketing and hype.) I saw an article in the Financial Times the other day. Some people have written a "Fax your MP[1]" gateway

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
kyle dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 05:52, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: 6. Engineering The Perl community is made up of a truly eclectic group of people, which is an amazing strength. However, it's also an amazing weakness: I get the impression that very few

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: "Gunther" == Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunther This is exactly why someone experienced in training (ie Gunther Randal/StoneHenge) would hopefully be the ones to take the Gunther torch on this. If there's anyone I would trust

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread Piers Cawley
Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 14:07 06/12/2000 -0500, kyle dawkins wrote: Ok, you're missing my point but that's partially my fault for not explaining. First, let me agree: Java's "everything is an object" mentality sucks balls. And yes, Perl's duality of functional/OO is

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread J. J. Horner
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:26PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Gunther" == Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunther This is exactly why someone experienced in training (ie Gunther Randal/StoneHenge) would hopefully be the ones to take the Gunther torch on this. If there's

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Stas Bekman
Installing: I've installed mod_perl twice in the last month. The first time was on Solaris and was quite painless. The second time was on RH 7.0, and was fairly painful. Took most of a day of futzing around to finally get it installed and working. I ran into two problems, first the

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Nathan Torkington
J. J. Horner writes: I'd be interested in something like this. Certification is a quagmire. If it's done well, it takes a lot of work by the certification authority, and that makes it expensive for those certified. If it's done poorly, it's useless and is just a moneymaker for the

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Stas Bekman
By the way, does mod_perl have a "board of directors"? If there was a mod_perl consortium backing mod_perl (Merlyn, Lincoln, Doug, Stas etc) formally, I'm sure we could get some pretty serious notice. Yes, it's called Project Management Committee (pmc) and currently the members are Doug,

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread J. J. Horner
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:58:48PM +0100, Stas Bekman wrote: By the way, does mod_perl have a "board of directors"? If there was a mod_perl consortium backing mod_perl (Merlyn, Lincoln, Doug, Stas etc) formally, I'm sure we could get some pretty serious notice. Yes, it's called

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

[certification] (was Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection)

2000-12-07 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, J. J. Horner wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:58:48PM +0100, Stas Bekman wrote: By the way, does mod_perl have a "board of directors"? If there was a mod_perl consortium backing mod_perl (Merlyn, Lincoln, Doug, Stas etc) formally, I'm sure we could get some

Re: shared mem [was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-07 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite. I'll look at those. Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also, File::Cache is sometimes faster than the IPC

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Robin Berjon
At 07:56 07/12/2000 -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and mod_perl and have local Perlmongers lead classes. I have my slides from the University of Perl, which I'd contribute

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron E. Ross
at a time earlier than now, Stas Bekman wrote: Installing: What's so complicated about this: % cd /usr/src % lwp-download http://www.apache.org/dist/apache_x.x.x.tar.gz % lwp-download http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-x.xx.tar.gz % tar xzvf apache_x.x.x.tar.gz % tar xzvf

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: J. J. Horner writes: I'd be interested in something like this. Certification is a quagmire. If it's done well, it takes a lot of work by the certification authority, and that makes it expensive for those certified. If it's done poorly, it's

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread J. J. Horner
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: J. J. Horner writes: I'd be interested in something like this. Certification is a quagmire. If it's done well, it takes a lot of work by the certification authority, and that makes it expensive for those certified. If

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread barries
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: J. J. Horner writes: I'd be interested in something like this. Certification is a quagmire. If it's done well, it takes a lot of work by the certification authority, and that makes it expensive for those certified. If

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread barries
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:52:01PM +0100, Stas Bekman wrote: What's so complicated about this: When everything goes right, and when you happen to have lwp installed and a tar that uncompresses :-). Seems like a good process to encode in a build_my_mod_perl.pl, FWIW. - Barrie

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: At 07:56 07/12/2000 -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and mod_perl and have local Perlmongers lead classes. I have my slides

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:52:01PM +0100, Stas Bekman took time to write: Your problem is that you try to use the precompiled broken packages provided by distros. If I can jump... I must say that I *never* had a problem with Debian packages of mod_perl. Maybe RedHat packages have (don't known

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread brian moseley
On 7 Dec 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Development are two of the bibles. I have to say though, I've avoided the Design Patterns type books purely because of the C++/Java bias. you sure are missing out. - To unsubscribe,

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On 7 Dec 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Do it on line, for free (or real cheap)? OK so it'd be multiple-guess most of the time, but peer review of submitted coursework too? Then I like mjd's "certification" much much better. Certification done right doesn't matter. Certification not

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread kyle dawkins
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:33, you wrote: On 7 Dec 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Development are two of the bibles. I have to say though, I've avoided the Design Patterns type books purely because of the C++/Java bias. you sure are missing out. I second that. You should lose your

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread bthak
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: At 07:56 07/12/2000 -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and mod_perl and have

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

Alliance? WAS - Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron Johnson
What about working with ActiveState? I know they were primarily Windows focused, but they now have Linux and Solaris versions of Perl pre compiled. mod_perl can now be gotten to work with the latest ActivePerl build (622) for Windows. (thanks to Randy Kobes, or at least I think that is who has

Re: Alliance? WAS - Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread Gunther Birznieks
The could be although ActiveState has a product that competes with mod_perl on the NT side called PerlEx. What is too bad about the silence about the relationship is that PerlEx as a product could really benefit from evolving upon the back of a mod_perl code base. ...In terms of rapidly

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread Gunther Birznieks
I would agree. If you want to see design patterns in practical action with relation to mod_perl.. go to http://www.extropia.com/ExtropiaObjects/ and skim through Chapters 10 (App Architecture) and on (on the individual app toolkit components). Each one contains a sidebar on how design

Re: shared mem [was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-07 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite. I'll look at those. Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also,

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

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-06 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, kyle dawkins wrote: [1. two types of developer] agreed. [2. Perl4 / Perl5 ] This is also true. Although a lot of "Perl programmers" haven't got a clue about the object orientation stuff in Perl5 either. On the other side of the coin, too many people are jumping on the "It's

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Greg Cope
Stas Bekman wrote: Well as you've probably figured out, based on the load of email from me, I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish the mod_perl book, have some rest and make a push to mod_perl. Well best of luck hope you have a good rest - I'll certainly buy the book! In

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-06 Thread Tim Sweetman
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, kyle dawkins wrote: * We implement a "mode" under mod_perl, kind of like "use strict", that suddenly forces Perl to behave well from an object-oriented standpoint. By this, I mean taking some of the power away from Perl that causes

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Stas Bekman
I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish the mod_perl book, have some rest and make a push to mod_perl. Well best of luck hope you have a good rest - I'll certainly buy the book! :) I see two main streams: 1) Online zines. 2) Conferences. I think that we

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but I don't seem to make other interested. I don't know why. Folks are too busy I guess. It's blogger syndrome. You need to do it in parallel with the development. The only reason my mod_perl/FastCGI comparison got written was because those nice

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: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Stephen A. Cochran
I've been following along with this thread with interest, expecially since I'm new to the mod_perl list and community (thanks for all the help so far!). I thought you might be interesed in a 'mod_perl newbie' opinion. Recently I was handed an online event calendar running under CGI and asked to

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-06 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I've always considered mod_perl similar to an artist's canvas, while Java is more like a craftsman's tool kit. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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:

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