Re: Possible bugs or my misunderstanding

2002-03-14 Thread Jan Kyncl
Hi Gerald and all, little question before I will send "my bugs"... Is it allowed to run together b5 and b6 on different virtual servers ? I mean together on system, not on virtual servers. That is probably the main source of my troubles. Thanks Jan

Compiling Embperl-2.0b6 using Debian's xalan

2002-03-14 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Currently Embperl 2.0 Beta 6 requires xalan to be compiled from sources. xalan is not only a big download, but also takes a long time to compile. I've modified driver/epxalan.MAKEPL, so that it will check to see if xalan is already installed in /usr. On my Debian 3.0 system, after running 'apt-ge

Storable not working under Embperl?

2002-03-14 Thread Scott Chapman
I get this error when trying to store something using Storable and this is working fine elsewhere in my code. I'm not storing any CODE items that I'm aware of! [849]ERR: 24: Error in Perl code: Can't store CODE items at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_store.al) li

Re: Taking on PHP

2002-03-14 Thread Andre Landwehr
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:52:36PM +0100, Axel Beckert - ecos gmbh wrote: > I believe that PHP made it probably because of less syntactic sugar > (PERL is so sweet ;-) and probably easier installation / lesser > requirements. For EmbPerl you need PERL, mod_perl and EmbPerl, for PHP > you just

Re: Possible bugs or my misunderstanding

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi, > > There are some of my observations /maybe possible bugs or my > misunderstanding/ > 1) > Using embperl:syntax with other than ISO 8859-1 /like czech etc/ characters > doesn't work. > The result is in ISO 8859-1 only. > > So in previous version 2.0b5 It worked perfectly. > There are no ch

Possible bugs or my misunderstanding

2002-03-14 Thread Jan Kyncl
Hi all, I just installed new Embperl 2.0b6. Great work !!! Thanks anyway Gerald There are some of my observations /maybe possible bugs or my misunderstanding/ 1) Using embperl:syntax with other than ISO 8859-1 /like czech etc/ characters doesn't work. The result is in ISO 8859-1 only. So in pr

Re: Taking on PHP

2002-03-14 Thread Axel Beckert - ecos gmbh
Hi! On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:51:15AM -, Sam Michel wrote: > - use of real, proper Perl, rather than having to learn another > scripting language That's probably the big point for all perl lovers. > However, from a marketing perspective there's another key reason for using > Embperl...(m

Re: Taking on PHP

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> > 1. Why is PHP so popular, with such an active user community? I think at the first look it is easier to install and use. You will get more quickly a first result and if you are a newbie your aren't able to see the limits of PHP. Also, as Axel said, PHP is available for free at most ISP, while

Re: Auto-loading an embperl file?

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> > Are these routines which must be executed on every page or merely > present? If the latter then look at EMBPERL_OBJECT_HANDLER_CLASS. > This is also a possiblity when dealing with Embperl::Object, the difference is that when you define an application object, it's init method will be called, a

Re: Auto-loading an embperl file?

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> I often find myself with a site where every page starts off with: > > [! Execute('common-set-of-routines') !] > > Is there anyway (other than Embperl::Object, which I may already be > using on portions of the site for other things) to configure this to > happen automatically? The new applicatio

Re: Naming schemes for general web packages

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> > I have a number of packages that I want to release to the public. > These mostly consist of a database component, a perl library, and a > set of embperl include files and/or templates. The perl library is > often not embperl-specific, you could probably use it with any CGI > package that can

RE: Taking on PHP

2002-03-14 Thread Sam Michel
Hello all... We're not Perl gurus by any stretch of the imagination, but the main reasons we chose to use Embperl over PHP: - use of real, proper Perl, rather than having to learn another scripting language - Object-oriented design through Embperl::Object However, from a marketing perspective t

Re: Designing embperl for WYSIWYG editors - hope in embperl 2?

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> > That does look like it has the functionality, although I the > macro-substitution perl-code-as-a-string model doesn't look fun to > parse. This is the way Embperl compiler currently takes it syntax definitions. Also it not always looks very nice, it's optimized so that most of the action is m

Re: Recipe at top of the file (was: Designing embperl for WYSIWYG editors - hope in embperl 2?)

2002-03-14 Thread Gerald Richter
> > This reminds me of something else I'd been meaning to ask. Have you > considered some type of meta-directive that could be placed at the > top of a file and would specify the recipe with which it should be > processed? Currently the caller decides this, but this would allow > you to make the