I just published an article, "Test-First Maintenance: A Diary", where I mention the Event module briefly - http://tejasconsulting.com/DFWUUG/test-first-maintenance.html. I took an old perl 4 script (the stress_driver test tool) that I wrote before the Event module existed (at least before I knew about it) where I had rolled my own event loop, and I ported it to the Event module.
I mentioned a bug in Event along the way, I still need to analyze what happened and see if it's a known issue. By the way, I'm using Event with a Cygwin-aware port of perl on Windows NT and 2000. It didn't seem to work with ActiveState perl. What platforms is Event known to work on? By the way, I don't know if I ever announced the availability of my slides from my Event-Driven Scripting presentation last year that you folks helped me with - http://tejasconsulting.com/papers/event-driven/Event-Driven.htm. The stress_driver is one of the tools that led to that talk. It's now open source so I'm working with it again. For news about other writings related to Event, you can sign up for my newsletter at the URL below. I am presenting a paper on the stress_driver at Quality Week in September, and I'm discussing doing a trial run of it for the D/FW Perl Mongers before then. And if you'd like to contribute to the stress_driver project, let me know. There's plenty more testing and bug fixing to be done. -- Danny Faught Tejas Software Consulting http://www.tejasconsulting.com
