I just shipped Starman 0.2000 to CPAN. This release contains bug fixes from Graham Barr and Patrick Donelan on rare 100% cpu spin loops and a bug in Keep-alive handling on HTTP/1.0, but also has a major incompatible feature: preloading apps.
I’m now in Vienna, Austria to join the Perl QA Hackathon 2010.
It is a great pleasure that my 4 hour hack last night lets me now introduce: Sunaba the perl sandbox environment to run any PSGI/Plack applications.
I started developing cpanminus one night in February when i got stuck with running CPAN.pm on linode VPS, and you may have noticed from its name, it’s rather some kind of toy/fun project that’s not meant to be serious. I was even considering to put it under Acme:: namespace.
Now we have 4 (or actually more) PSGI standalone web servers. Here’s a quick cheat sheet to compare them:
There is no main project on github that gathers people, even though we can see a fair amount of MooseX:: projects. Most of the developers will work on different modules, that may not have the same purpose. Lately we have seen a fair amount of work on various Plack stuff, mainly middleware, but also HTTP servers (twiggy, starman, â¦) and web framework (dancer).
“Modern Perl” people usually focus on stuff like Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class – they’re awesome modules and Web/ORM thing you should look at, but here’s another take to show off what “recent” perl would look like to Ruby/Python web developers who are familiar with Rack and WSGI.
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Japan has been known as a country where a shiny new technologies such as weird USB gadgets, cellphone TV/wallets or RFID devices are introduced first and adapted in a really early stage. Plack is not an exception.
miyagawa’s plack-dispatching-samples at master - GitHub
The Perl community seems abuzz about the cool new cpanminus client by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa. After about two weeks of development, this is a reasonably functional CPAN client with just a fraction of the overhead, complexity and verbosity of the CPAN and CPANPLUS clients that come with the Perl core.
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I’ve been working on Perl based UNIX-y preforking high-performance web server for PSGI.
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I am pleased to announce that i’ve just shipped Plack 0.99_01 to CPAN, the first dev release towards Plack 1.0.