Dean S Wilson wrote: > > I've seen lots of Content management systems get shredded and left on > the floor of this list and I'm after opinions from anyone whos used > Midgard, basically is it any good? (http://www.midgard-project.org) php - nasty .... Have you looked at openinteract (.org) ? A new perl App server. > > >From the talks I was in I discovered the following: > > Perl got a few mentions at the Open Source Dev meeting, CPAN's > location mirroring algorithm was mentioned a couple of times in a > presentation about BGP by VA Linux. > VA are making a geographical redirector that will does dynamic DNS and points a client to thier nearest (network wise) node. > Zope is now supporting Perl at a much level than previously > (Apparently, I don't use Zope so I have no idea...) > > Smoothwall has had over 375,000 downloads from Sourceforge and they > use perl for all the firewall admin stuff. Has to be a good thing, > also Smoothwall are in discussion with getting Smoothwall boxsets > distributed so I'm assuming that perl will be shipped out with every > copy of those. Not major stuff but nice none the less. > > Rasmus of PHP said that he, Larry and Guido were in the planning > stages of getting a meeting together to discuss backends to scripting > languages... Not sure exactly how far into planning and this answer > was prompted by someone asking why not use the perl or python backend > instead of Zend. Zend is nasty - they had to change the licence in PHP4 from gpl to a BSD free-ish one because zend was originally under the qpl (I think). Zend have decided to release thier caching / complier stuff commerically for loads of money. Another company has released a GPL cacher .... I feel that zend rewrote the underlying script engine for php, so that they could then "sell" it or sell the add ons. Greg > > Dean > PS Brussels was nice but I think it closes for the weekend. > > -- > Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. > --- Anon
