Re: [Apachetoolbox-devel] Re: Perlifying AT

[Kevin J M. <km...@WP...>]

Awesome.  I've been hesitant about the making a module object thus far
(and objects for everything else).  This sounds very similar to what I
have proposed thus far.  Once we have the class form, writing a utility to
convert legacy modules over would be quite trivial.  Please check the
archives on my past proposals.  And if you join the project, check out the
kevin/ directory on sf.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Bryan wrote:

> You've got me very excited now! I can't wait to see an alpha version.  Its
> hard to get started, but I feel once you have a working framework it will
> be easy for us to get going.  If you'd like on the offical ATB devel list
> let me know your handle on sourceforge.  If not don't worry about it, not
> really needed.
>
> The only catch I see so far (from what I've read) is a lack of module
> dependancie, freetype2 is needed by GD which needs libPNG, etc.  Shouldn't
> be too difficult I guess.  I can't thank you enough!
>
> -Bryan
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Jay Lawrence wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Bryan,
> >
> > I have been making a stab at the perlification process. Here is the
> > general gist of what I'm doing.
> >
> > a - every application, module or library is its own class file that
> > inherits basic operations from a base class
> >
> > b - there's a main class for all general configurations.
> >
> > c - all "configured" or "configurable" parameters are expressed in
> > each class file as a multilevel hash. Have a program - configure2pl
> > that extracts ./configure --help output to ease the development
> > process.
> >
> > d - nothing is/will be hardcoded except default values - but then we
> > can make anything configurable.
> >
> > e - each application, module or library has a descriptive block all
> > about itsself
> >
> > f - provisions for descriptions and help text for everything
> >
> > g - provisions for pick lists of value choices
> >
> > h - provisions for several prompt levels = basic choices -> advanced
> > user choices
> >
> > i - No module dependancies for Perl (at this point) - I have even
> > elected to use "wget" as it seems like a pretty slick tool! Not
> > everybody has "LWP" installed but existing Apachetoolbox users will no
> > doubt have wget.
> >
> >
> > I've been working with MySQL as my first app and am now up to:
> >  - get source
> >  - unpack
> >  - configure
> >  - make
> >  - test
> >  - install
> >
> > I've included a mechansim to check source files using md5sum or
> > expected file length.
> >
> > There's no practical limitations that I know of at this time.
> >
> > -----------
> >
> > I don't want to steal your thunder on Apachetoolbox - I just sat down
> > tonight and got on a roll. ;-)
> >
> > I do hope you're cool if I put my name on the copyright ALONG with
> > yours for the stuff that I write? Is that ok?
> >
> > Anyway, once I get load/save and menu prompts working I'll send you
> > demo.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jay
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Bryan wrote:
> >
> > > I'd love the help!  I've currently setup a project on sourceforge.net for
> > > the development of ATB v2.0.  Besides me, there's currently 1 other
> > > member, and he's back in school now.  I'm just beginning with perl and I
> > > don't feel like I'm at the level I need to be for ATB 2.0 yet.  So I'll
> > > take any and all help I could get!
> > >
> > > -Bryan
> > >
> > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Jay Lawrence wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hey Bryan,
> > > >
> > > > I have been exercising AT recently. (Myself, I had my own automated
> > > > build system underway before seeing yours). Anyway, I really like what
> > > > I see but of course have uncovered a number of limitations that I'd
> > > > like to work around.
> > > >
> > > > Being that I program in Perl 99% of my life I'd like to migrate Bourne
> > > > shell code to Perl. I thought I saw a reference somewhere that said
> > > > you'd like to see that happen.
> > > >
> > > > I have been thinking/sketching out what I think is a very viable way
> > > > to offer a flexible and robust interface to what has been written
> > > > already.
> > > >
> > > > Is this of interest to you?
> > > > Have you written anything to this end already?
> > > > Do you have things that you want to achieve going forward?
> > > >
> > > > Lemme know - I'd be glad to collaborate and have prototyped some stuff
> > > > already.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Jay
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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