duh. I'll learn to finish reading all the posts before adding my own
*someday*.
--- Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:23 AM +0300 12/11/07, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> >Darren Duncan wrote:
> >>At 9:04 AM +0300 12/10/07, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> >>>Equally, Something to replace CGI or DBI will be essential to the
> >>>uptake of P6. I would far prefer to have a skilled and resourceful
>
> >>>professional, such as yourself or Damian Conway write these
> >>>modules than leave it to enthusiastic amateurs such as myself.
> >>
> >>I for one can assert that both of these are being produced right
> >>now. Also that neither is part of the Perl 6 kernal, though the
> >>kernal may enhanced over time to better support them. -- Darren
> >>Duncan
> >
> >A great relief. Fantastic.
> >
> >Where should I be looking to see what is happening. Is there some
> >form of coordination of this module writing activity?
>
> Look in the ext/ subdirectory of Pugs version control to start with,
> as it contains a bunch of Perl 6 modules in various stages of
> completion, some doing http or web stuff, and some doing database
> stuff.
>
> One place to look for some coordination is on the perl6-users list.
> They were discussing a CGI replacement awhile ago, and Juerd made a
> proposal plus some example code, which became HTTP/ and Web/ under
> ext/.
>
> On various DBI lists there was some talk about DBI-2, which it ended
> up will have a foundation written for Parrot with bindings for Perl
> and other languages.
>
> There is also a mod_parrot project.
>
> There is also my Muldis DB project, a version of which is written in
> Perl 6, and which is being built rigorously.
>
> These efforts are all separate from each other, as per CPAN module
> development in general, and there is no one coordination point of all
>
> of it.
>
> But the work is still getting done nonetheless.
>
> As for standards, well those tend to be defacto. Whichever of these
> projects get functional and used will likely set the pace for what
> comes next, which may include forming the basis for more formal
> standards.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
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