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mod_perl digest
April 15, 2001 - April 21, 2001
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o cvs patches
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o news
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: 5.6.1 (released April 9, 2001) [5]
- development: 5.7.1 [6]
cvs patches
o fix for make tar_Apache [7]
o export hvrv2table (needed by Apache::Request) for aix and
win32 [8]
o fix $r->no_cache(0) to unset cache headers [9]
o back out 'stop win32 crash when bringing down service' change, no
longer needed with 1.3.19 [10]
o improvements in Apache::MyConfig [11] [12]
o make sure global for Apache->request is reset after configuring
%ENV [13]
o 56 patches to 2.0 this week [14]
module announcements
o Apache::Reload 0.07 - a replacement for Apache::StatINC, with
more features and better debugging [15]
o HTML::Mason 1.02 - 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 [16]
mailing list highlights
o This thread compares the advantages and disadvantages of
generating your httpd.conf from a database using a template
system over using <Perl> sections [17]
o A rather lengthy thread comparing MLDBM, Postgres, and other
storage solutions that started back in October. It takes quite
a few turns but this week's installation might be worth a read
if you are into this - some of the responses actually contain
worthy information [18]
o Get some very interesting insights into MVC application design
using mod_perl based tools [19]
news
o For some reason, Netcraft released April numbers mid-April...
Apache 62.55% IIS 20.64% [20]
mod_perl: 2,482,288 Domains, 256,862 IP Addresses [21]
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [22]
o mod_perl documentation [23]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [24]
o mod_perl homepage [25]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [26]
o mod_perl list archives [27] [28]
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.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz
[6] http://www.cpan.org/src/devel.tar.gz
[7] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754354908081&w=2
[8] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754418110219&w=2
[9] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754465211646&w=2
[10] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754493312683&w=2
[11] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754716518832&w=2
[12] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754733719250&w=2
[13] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98754313806576&w=2
[14] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&r=1&w=2&b=200104
[15] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/flunyaxtwan
[16] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/quimhoukhax
[17] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/quoblerberd
[18] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/whalthixgrol
[19] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/manzhayblix
[20] http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
[21] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-cvs&m=98760695302450&w=2
[22] http://perl.apache.org
[23] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[24] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[25] http://www.modperl.com
[26] http://www.take23.org
[27] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[28] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
