Re: [Lilproxy-project] Looking to the future. and Perl for Windows

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@Montag, 25. Juni 2001 16:43 David Irvine:

> Anyway in the future I would be looking to develop a small gui front end,
> even if it just executes lil-proxy with the specified command line args,
> (The preferred way) something similar to what i think win32 users will see
> if they start or stop a service, they get a small dialog box up from
> control panel. Just a simple introduction to a widget set and how it can be
> used under perl and that sort of thing.

Do you think of Tk or something more win32 specific?

> And secondly some sort of DBI gadget to store details of the sites visited
> etc. and perhaps if we are really good at databases and gui's we could make
> a site statistics screen.

I'd like to have the cache thingies work as modules.
And I think that our first cache module should use a DB.
But there is a a issue about binary data and DB's ( images, flash ... ). 

> Also, i'm now away from home for a while, and no longer have access to my
> *nix boxes, although i do have linux on my laptop, but no net access yet.
> So, i'm looking for a perl suite for windows, I had a look at activestates
> perl, but it appears to need interdev, which I do not have. (to my
> knowledge.)  Are there any other good suites, and or packages I should
> have?

Activestate's Perl distribution should install,
you may need a newer msi.

There is also
http://www.indigostar.com

Cygwin
http://www.cygwin.com

and you could also compile from sources.


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