Re: [Pas-dev] Re: your mail

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

> I do like the flexibility and scalability of a separate server. I also think 
> that it's easier to tune performance of a separate server. But all this is 
> more gut feeling and less science.

Well, with Apache's request forwarding you can set up an instance of Apache
dedicated to running your Pas based application having the front end server
serve up static content and forward requests off to the dedicated serever.

In fact, I'm running Mandrake right now, and by default it does just this.
It sets up an Apache instance on port 80 for normal http traffic, and 
and instance of Apache that has mod_perl on port 8200.  I then have a
rewrite rule in my http.conf that forwards requests for dynamic
content to the mod_perl server:

  RewriteRule ^(.*\/pas\/.*)$  http://%{HTTP_HOST}:8200$1 [P]

This forwards any url that contains /pas/ over to the mod_perl instance.

> What developers are you referring to? As it's the first time I saw Pas, I 
> would like to know how big the community is.

I'm referring to the current active developers, which includes myself
and 2 other programmers.

The community is small at this point.

> Do you have any idea about performance numbers? How easy is it to develop 
> with Pas?

I don't have any hard numbers relating to performance.  As far as how
easy it is to develop with Pas, that's probably a matter of opinion.  
Personaly I beleive it is very easy.

> It's OK. If you like, you can join me to this list. I'd like to listen in on 
> Pas development for a while, until I have the time to try it out. The time is 
> not now; maybe later this summer.

Joining the list is a voluntary process.  If you are interested in joining,
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Good luck with your project.


Best regards,
Kyle R. Burton


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