Andrew Piskorski wrote:
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.
The compelling application i am investigating is SQL-Ledger. All
presentation pages are embedded 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.
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