Hmmn! I, think, for the moment, I will just restructure my project to use a ruby server instead of perl. I tried out naoya's perl server but couldn't get that to work. Thanks for the replies and clarifications. I think the real place where a perl server could come in is that it would allow people to exploit cpan from within other languages.
Anshul On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Mark Slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, to be clear, no one's opposed to having a Perl server in any way. > The need just hasn't come up yet. Jake Luciani wrote the majority of the > Perl stuff, but I think he only uses it for his client-side. He might > have some ideas about server implementation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Perl server > > Another factor is that Facebook (the original home of thrift) is very > much a python/C/Java shop and very much *not* a perl shop. > > If first class support for Perl were to come from the community, I am > sure it would be welcome now that the project is at apache. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Anshul Khandelwal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Ummm... can you point me to some resource that helps me understand >> these limitations. I read through >> http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html#BUGS-AND-LIMITATIONS but I still >> don't get what would upset the process of writing a perl server for >> thrift. I am new to perl threads and thrift. I also came across >> >> http://www.slideshare.net/naoya1977/about-thrift >> >> and through it >> http://github.com/naoya/perl-thrift-server/tree/master >> >> I don't know any Japanese but this looks like a perl server >> implementation for thrift. Anyway, I will write my server in some >> other thrift language for the moment. All the same, I am curious as >> to why not having a perl server for thrift makes sense. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Anshul >> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Last I saw, Perl is client only. This makes sense given Perl's >> > thread limitations. >> > >> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Anshul Khandelwal < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> Is a perl server supported by thrift yet? I can't find any >> >> examples in the tutorial or the test directories. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Anshul >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ted >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > ted >
