Wide Finder

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Scaldeferri
Okay, I gotta wonder, how come no one's submitted a Wide Finder (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Results) implementation in POE (or any Perl for that matter)? I spent a few minutes thinking about this, but the problem I had was that I didn't know of a way to easily

Re: Wide Finder

2007-11-03 Thread David Davis
It looks like a competition. He includes lines of code as a metric, which should tell you something... Well, anyway. As Pierre, a commenter, suggested; you could write a script that runs Perl piped with xargs and the -n and -P options. No POE needed, and it would be faster! -- David

Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread Jeremy Palmer
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an easy way to compress a directory of files (either with TAR/GZIP or ZIP) using POE? I see there is a filter called 'POE::Filter::Zlib', but I'm not sure how to use it. In some cases the directory archive might be 50 mb, so it's very important that this task

Re: Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread David Davis
That filter is for compressing a stream. You should look at using an archive module in combination with POE::Component::Generic HTH Cheers -- David Davis • Software Engineer • [ http://xant.us/ ] On Nov 3, 2007, at 20:09, Jeremy Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if

Re: Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread Jeremy Palmer
Hi David, OK thanks. However POE::Component::Generic is not an option for me as I'm using win32, and the Activestate Perl fork emulation has lots of bugs. I just found this post: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.poe/2006/11/msg3601.html There does not seem to be any follow-up though :(

Re: Wide Finder

2007-11-03 Thread Chris Prather
On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:39 p, David Davis wrote: It looks like a competition. He includes lines of code as a metric, which should tell you something... Well, anyway. As Pierre, a commenter, suggested; you could write a script that runs Perl piped with xargs and the -n and -P options. No