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

[David I. <co...@ya...>]

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From: Buggs <bug...@sp...>
To: <Lil...@li...>
Cc: David Irvine <co...@ya...>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Lilproxy-project] Looking to the future. and Perl for Windows


> @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 ... ).
>
I guess you can go in either two directions,
a)
Store the binary data as blob (Binary Large OBjects) inside the database
which is fine except when you start to get a lot of big files your database
grows and becomes slower.

B)
Store a path to the binary files in the database.



> > 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.
>
>
> Buggs
>
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