On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:07:19AM -0500, Brian Hennessey wrote: > Hello - > > Is there a module that enables AOLServer to run perl scripts? I see > aol-perl project on SourceForge, but there are no project files yet. Are > there other modules or techniques available that I have not stumbled onto?
What is it that you are trying to do exactly? You can always just exec a Perl script of course, that's trivial. Or run Perl CGI. If you want a Perl interpreter embedded in the AOLserver process like the Tcl interpreter, then aol-perl is the only project I've heard of to do that. If you want to try it you can pull it out of CVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/perl-aol/perl-aol/ It sounds like alpha code, and AFAIK no one has used it for any real sites. This is also unlikely to change unless someone in the AOLserver community happens to come up with a compelling application for AOLserver which happens to already be completely written in Perl. That's what happened with PHP, note. AFAIK no AOLserver-savy developers have yet had the poor taste to prefer doing all their new development in PHP, but there are some pretty good existing PHP applications for things like webmail, and people are definitely running some of those applications on AOLserver. In fact, so far, no one's even had a compelling need to add better Tcl/PHP cross-language support in AOLserver, although that's definitely do-able, and has been discussed, e.g.: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=155447 http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=199663 http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=198734 I don't think we've heard from anyone yet who actually wanted to write new Perl code for AOLserver. So far, the small intersection of people who both want to use AOLserver but prefer to use a high level language other than Tcl seem to have been most interested in, roughly in order: Python, Ruby, Scheme, OCaml, or Standard ML. http://www.panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/165 So far, I haven't heard of anyone wanting to integrate say, Erlang, Haskell, or R with AOLserver, although I suspect some or all of those might be useful in at least some application domains. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
