[Pas-dev] Re: Pas on win32?

[Kyle R . B. <mo...@vo...>]

> I have been investigating using pas for some web development.  I want to
> preface this by saying thanks for the great looking tool.  I much prefer
> using Perl for things but all of the packages I was find to provide some
> app server structure instead of just going with a mish-mash of cgi's
> were in Java.  So thanks!

Your welcome!  Thanks for the feedback.

> I have pas working pretty well under Apache/Linux/mod_perl.  However, I
> also loaded it on my laptop in order to work in an off-line mode.  Under
> win2000server/winApache/mod_perl and am getting errors regarding
> pathnames.  It looks like
> Org::Bgw::Pas::Psp::Compiler::create_directory_for_file is unhappy with
> the fact that there is now a drive letter in front of the paths it is
> dealing with.  

Yes, that's a problem.  When I wrote the code I never considered Windows.
There are several functions that need to be delt with.

In Org::Bgw::Pas::Psp::Compiler, the following need to be
updated to account for pathin differences (both / vs \\ and drive
letter vs no drive letter -- maybe we can change the code to use
File::Base?).
  - sub compute_pwd
  - sub resolve_includes
  - sub file_to_package
  - sub package_to_file
  - sub create_directory_for_file (as you discovered)

> Have you/do you know of anyone running under this config?

Not until now. :)

> If so I'd like to talk to them to make sure I am not reinventing the
> wheel.  Otherwise if I can patch and get things working I will send the
> info along to you.  I'm including the details below.

That would be awesome.  I appreciate your involvement.

Oh, looking at your http.conf, is the only issue the leading drive
letter?  Do we just need to keep create_directory_for_file to not
call mkdir for [ $file =~ /^[a-z]:\//i ]?  Hrm...but doesn't the 
[ -d $path ] return true for "d:/"?

I added your configuration of http.conf to the CVS archivea s docs/Win32.


By the way, if you want to try to just compile a PSP page, there
is a utility:  bin/pspCompilePage that you can use to run/test the compiler
by hand.  There is also a bin/pspBuild that will attempt to compile all
of the PSP pages under the document root.


Thanks again,
Kyle R. Burton


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