RE: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread richter
Hi, Embperl is still alive :-), also it's moving slowly :-( The version in the svn and the dev snapshot 2.5.0_1 (which can be found at http://www.embperl.org/downloads/ ) solves the debian problem. There are some problems left with mod_perl and perl 5.14 and 5.16 . There is a solution for the

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Le 03/09/2012 09:22, rich...@ecos.de a écrit : The good news is that I currently working on a payed project which includes fixing Embperl for Perl 5.14 & 5.16, so hopefully there will be a new release in a few weeks, which solves all these problems. Great news, be strong ! -- Jean-Christophe B

Error running embperl

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Hi, I just recompiled latest embperl 2.5.0_1, setup everything (?) but I get : Undefined subroutine &Embperl::__1::Execute * I added "use Embperl;" in startup.pl * Copied zembperl.load and zembperl.conf from a running project, replacing the path to : LoadModule embperl_module /usr/local/lib/p

RE: Error running embperl

2012-09-03 Thread richter
Are there any errors in the Apache error log? Gerald > -Original Message- > From: Jean-Christophe Boggio [mailto:embp...@thefreecat.org] > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 11:13 AM > To: embperl@perl.apache.org > Subject: Error running embperl > > Hi, > > I just recompiled latest embpe

Re: Error running embperl

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Le 03/09/2012 11:44, rich...@ecos.de a écrit : Are there any errors in the Apache error log? No, nothing else. I think I've found the problem : apache2-mpm-worker installed instead of apache2-mpm-prefork (default apt-get install apache2 done by the admin). How many times will I be bitten by

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Jose Fonseca
> The good news is that I currently working on a payed project which includes fixing Embperl for Perl 5.14 & 5.16, so hopefully there will be a new release in a few weeks, which solves all these problems. That is actually very exciting news. I'd like to thank Gerald Richter for his work and how av

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:44:27AM -0300, Jose Fonseca wrote: > So the main con against Embperl is not actually an Embperl issue: Perl > urgently needs an application packaging system like Java already has had > for 17 years. Upload a binary and the app is deployed, that's how simple it > should be

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Jose Fonseca
> The fact that java has it doesn't mean that it makes sense for perl, > on technical grounds. The vast majority of perl is pure-perl, not It does relate to Perl IMO. We're in an age where scaling up is no longer the only way forward. I can add 100 Cassandra database machines in Amazon AWS in one

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 11:06:05AM -0300, Jose Fonseca wrote: > > The fact that java has it doesn't mean that it makes sense for perl, > > on technical grounds. The vast majority of perl is pure-perl, not > > It does relate to Perl IMO. We're in an age where scaling up is no longer > the only way

Re: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Jose Fonseca
> Adding an intermediate bytecode to perl5 is unrealistic, yes. IIRC it's already there ;) http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.16.1/ext/B/B.pm > Okay, that's one way of looking at things. I prefer to look at the > distribution as being a core part of the way software is managed (I work > in an e

2.0.5_1 - Issue with %udat

2012-09-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Hi, I'm experiencing something very strange, difficult to explain. I wrote an application where users can connect to LDAP servers (about each user connects to a different LDAP server) and execute a search. * If the ldap server answers, everything is ok. * If the search does not return, every

RE: Status of Embperl?

2012-09-03 Thread Ragnar Hákonarson
I just want to join Jose and air my gratitude to Gerald for his outstanding work and, not least, his availability which has been acknowledged by many over the years. I started using Embperl in 1999 and there are projects under my hat that are still at large today utilising Embperl. I, as many, d