Another factor is that Facebook (the original home of thrift) is very much a python/C/Java shop and very much *not* a perl shop.
If first class support for Perl were to come from the community, I am sure it would be welcome now that the project is at apache. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Anshul Khandelwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ummm... can you point me to some resource that helps me understand > these limitations. I read through > http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html#BUGS-AND-LIMITATIONS but I still > don't get what would upset the process of writing a perl server for > thrift. I am new to perl threads and thrift. I also came across > > http://www.slideshare.net/naoya1977/about-thrift > > and through it > http://github.com/naoya/perl-thrift-server/tree/master > > I don't know any Japanese but this looks like a perl server > implementation for thrift. Anyway, I will write my server in some > other thrift language for the moment. All the same, I am curious as > to why not having a perl server for thrift makes sense. > > Thanks, > > Anshul > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Last I saw, Perl is client only. This makes sense given Perl's thread > > limitations. > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Anshul Khandelwal < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> Is a perl server supported by thrift yet? I can't find any examples > >> in the tutorial or the test directories. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Anshul > > > > > > > > -- > > ted > > > > > > > -- ted
