Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Jie Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears easy to beginners, but as server admin, I find it a nightmare for beginners to play with it without knowing what's involved. So the marketing strategy for mod_perl should be very different. One can do so much more with mod_perl. I don't think

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread gunther
I am not responding solely to your post here, but also to several other points I saw brought up. Geoffrey Young wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 18:47, Chris Shiflett wrote: well, I think it really depends on what you want to accomplish. all

Re: mod_perl 2 / %ENV / system function

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Hèctor Alòs i Font wrote: En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit: Hèctor Alòs i Font wrote: En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit: Hèctor Alòs i Font wrote: I'm migrating a web application from mod_perl 1 to mod_perl 2 [new environment: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.4]. The problem is that in some

Re: [mp1] Dumper module becoming undefined sporadically

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Danny Rathjens wrote: I started getting this error sporadically from different pieces of code. Both modules(cached) and scripts(not cached): [error] PerlRun: `Undefined subroutine Data::Dumper::Dumper perl -MData::Dumper -e'print Dumper %ENV' works fine from commandline which rules out a hdd

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Eric
Hi, In Advanced Perl Programming, under the heading the case for scripting. That is something that I think would fit in very well in a talk. Lots of people know there are an endless number of very cool impressive things you can do with Perl and mod_perl. The amazing one liners, the tricks that

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- gunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.mod_perl.com (doesn't exist) www.mod_perl.org (doesn't exist) A small point, and I would have to double-check, but I don't believe underscores are allowed in domain names. You'd want to replace those with hyphens. A Google search for mod_perl gives me

Re: mod_perl 2 / %ENV / system function

2004-06-09 Thread Hèctor Alòs i Font
En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit: Hèctor Alòs i Font wrote: En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit: Hèctor Alòs i Font wrote: I'm migrating a web application from mod_perl 1 to mod_perl 2 [new environment: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.4]. The problem is that in some places the %ENV variable

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only place where the C API overrides the Perl API in mp1, IMHO, is for the configuration process. To do somehow a complicated configuration in Perl seems even more difficult than in C. Well, maybe I should sit down and read those chapters in the 3 books again :-) In

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
Eric wrote: In Advanced Perl Programming, under the heading the case for scripting. That is something that I think would fit in very well in a talk. Lots of people know there are an endless number of very cool impressive things you can do with Perl and mod_perl. The amazing one liners, the

docs (was Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger)

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Stefan Loones wrote: [...] Then about the documentation: [...] Stefan and a few other folks have voiced a few concers about docs. I'll try to address those here: 1) docs need to be improved and reorganized. Well, docs need to be written. It's easy to suggest things, one needs to actually write

Re: docs

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) docs need to have user comments. I'm not sure it's a good idea. We already have a way too much documentation. Instead of making it even harder for users to find things, one should take the existing docs and improve them, rather then dump random

Re: docs

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Chris Shiflett wrote: --- Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) docs need to have user comments. I'm not sure it's a good idea. We already have a way too much documentation. Instead of making it even harder for users to find things, one should take the existing docs and improve them, rather then

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Geoffrey Young
Eric wrote: I think the other aspect of mod_perl that I would want to push very hard is the deep hooks into Apache. Just as a small example of something I have not yet figured out, but am pretty sure I can find a way with mod_perl, I want to capture STDERR and redirect it to an in memory

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread James.Q.L
--- Jie Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also likes Stef's idea about adding user comments for doc. hope it can happen. hmm, does mod_perl still have problem running for virtual hosts? people choose php over cgi for obvious reason. Problem with virtual hosts? Like what? here

Re: docs

2004-06-09 Thread Chris
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:01:12 -0700, Stas Bekman wrote Chris Shiflett wrote: Alternatively, someone may want to start a wiki project where people can dump anythings they want, and then we can merge some of those notes back into the docs. Right then, unless someone comes up with something

Re: docs

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Chris wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:01:12 -0700, Stas Bekman wrote Chris Shiflett wrote: Alternatively, someone may want to start a wiki project where people can dump anythings they want, and then we can merge some of those notes back into the docs. Right then, unless someone comes up with

Re: docs

2004-06-09 Thread Chris
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:09:16 -0700, Stas Bekman wrote Chris wrote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:01:12 -0700, Stas Bekman wrote Chris Shiflett wrote: Alternatively, someone may want to start a wiki project where people can dump anythings they want, and then we can merge some of those notes

Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
While we're talking about mod_perl, perhaps I can throw out a few reasons why I have chosen it over other languages and technologies. This might help us figure out where we need to do some intial PR work. We currently have our account management code using PHP (this is for about 100k accounts).

Domain Name PR was Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread gunther
Chris Shiflett wrote: --- gunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.mod_perl.com (doesn't exist) www.mod_perl.org (doesn't exist) A small point, and I would have to double-check, but I don't believe underscores are allowed in domain names. You'd want to replace those with

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, FWIW IMO Speed, Flexibility, comprehension, Google_sex_appeal:) I find modperl cool. It would be useful IMO to promote by articles/board that contained everything from simple to complex usages for modperl catagorized by stage(s) used. (That way people can hit the ground

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread modperl
One key point that the PR needs to address is the future of a programming toolkit. mod_perl allows people to write perfect MVC applications while other scripting toolkits like php or asp are hard in seperating algorithm from html presentation. Sorry if I am misleading, but if to make a big PR,

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Stas Bekman
folks, there is no need to quote 22K of text you don't quite use anyway :( Please quote only parts of the text you reply to, or don't quote at all. Thanks. -- __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread modperl
James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The conclusion seems to be that PHP is nice for small systems and applications, but for larger, more complex projects, mod_perl is the only one of the two that can compete with the expectations coming from the Java side (which, as much as we may

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread modperl
folks, there is no need to quote 22K of text you don't quite use anyway :( Please quote only parts of the text you reply to, or don't quote at all. Thanks. -- __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl

Re: Domain Name PR

2004-06-09 Thread Larry Leszczynski
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, gunther wrote: But still having modperl.com as a primary project-name related domain name would be there for people who can't type _. Plus it will be consistent with other sites like modssl.org. In fact both modssl.com and modssl.org exist, but modssl.com just redirects

Re: Domain Name PR was Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Patrick
gunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-06-09 16:42 But if some clients do support underscore, since mod_perl is frequently written with an underscore, may as well get that domain name too in case You can NOT buy from Registrars domain names with underscores in them. These ``domain names'' do not

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread modperl
James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For many applications, you are correct. However, some situations require support of the most basic systems. Part of the problem with XHTML is that it is a page description language instead of a semantic markup language. We need to be

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For many applications, you are correct. However, some situations require support of the most basic systems. Part of the problem with XHTML is that it is a page description language instead of a semantic markup

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Shiflett
Not to discourage any PHP bashing (I'll often join in), but a few things on your list aren't really that accurate: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o No support for testing o No support for documentation o No way to declare variables / manage typos PHP has these particular

Re: [mp1] Dumper module becoming undefined sporadically

2004-06-09 Thread Danny Rathjens
Stas Bekman wrote: Danny Rathjens wrote: I started getting this error sporadically from different pieces of code. Both modules(cached) and scripts(not cached): [error] PerlRun: `Undefined subroutine Data::Dumper::Dumper [snip] I think it's due to your use of StatINC, please have a read of this

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to discourage any PHP bashing (I'll often join in), but a few things on your list aren't really that accurate: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o No support for testing o No support for documentation o No way to declare variables /

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Rafael Caceres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:58, James G Smith wrote: Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to discourage any PHP bashing (I'll often join in), but a few things on your list aren't really that accurate: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 9:51 AM -0700 6/9/04, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote: lot, but you get the point. Until people can pick a cheap, reliable, and well-known hosting service where mod_perl is one of the main options, you But it has to be more than mod_perl. mod_perl is far too low-level. Even Embperl or Mason

Configuration problems

2004-06-09 Thread David Arnold
Hi, I've spent quite a bit of time experimenting and reading, but I am unable to make progress with configuring mod_perl on our server. Please bear with me, as I am a mathemtaics teacher, not a system guru by any means. I am reading Paul Dubois's MySQL and Perl for the Web and I am stuck on page

mod_perl2 timely catching SIGPIPE

2004-06-09 Thread Jim Albert
I'm trying to determine how to have my mod_perl apache server properly catch a SIGPIPE signal in a timely manner. My environment is Apache/2.0.49 (Fedora) and mod_perl 2. In my conf.d/perl.conf file I have the following: PerlFixupHandler Apache::SIG2 I have created Apache::SIG2.pm as follows:

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-09 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, Well at the very least you sold a book :) I have to admit, when I looked at that book the first time, I thought I pretty much knew everything in it, what BS that was! :) I did solve my problem on my own somewhat sloppy way, but the example you gave was very interesting too and I hope to

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread Eric
Hi, This is a very good example of why it is pointless to get into, Perl can do this and PHP can't. The fact is, much of that is crap if you dig enough. Just like saying C can do something Perl can't, big deal, Perl can use the C code and move on. The reason I avoid PHP in particular for big

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHPUnit is available, first release was April, 2002. First production release was mid-March, 2004. I didn't say this stuff was old or mature, just that it exists. :-) Truly, PHP feels like it is just now