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mod_perl digest
March 25, 2001 - March 31, 2001
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o links
mod_perl status
o mod_perl
- stable: 1.25 (released January 29, 2001) [1]
- development: 1.25_01-dev [2]
o Apache
- stable: 1.3.19 (released February 28, 2001) [3]
- development: 1.3.20-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6 (released March 23, 2000) [5]
- development: 5.7 [6]
module announcements
o DBI 1.15 - Loaded with new features, DBI 1.15 is finally here
after a year of patient waiting. In the announcement Tim also
describes what's next on his agenda. [7]
o HTML::Embperl 2.0 beta2 - a module for embedding Perl code in HTML
pages that includes building pages/sites out of small reusable
objects/components and session handling [8]
o HTML::Mason 1.01 - allows web pages and sites to be constructed
from shared, reusable building blocks called components, which
contain a mix of Perl and HTML and can call each other and pass
values back and forth like subroutines [9]
mailing list highlights
o This is yet-another-caching thread, but it does mention some
of the issues around threaded perl that are good to know for
those that have an interest in mod_perl 2.0 [10]
o There was a report of a segfault under Apache::Session::Postgres,
as well as a suggested solution [11]
o mod_perl 2.0 gets closer every day [12]
see everyone at the conference...
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [13]
o mod_perl documentation [14]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [15]
o mod_perl homepage [16]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [17]
o mod_perl list archives [18] [19]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
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[1] http://perl.apache.org/dist/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/
[3] http://www.apache.org/dist/
[4] http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-1.3/
[5] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#stable
[6] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#devel
[7] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=perl-dbi&m=98596785405354&w=2
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/chalbenlimp
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/tuldeejoo
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/thoowoispoo
[11] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/terkhyswi
[12] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&r=1&w=2&b=200104
[13] http://perl.apache.org
[14] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[15] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[16] http://www.modperl.com
[17] http://www.take23.org
[18] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[19] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
