[pdb-dev]Anubis-0.04 Released - No More Reliance on CGI

[Andy D. <and...@ya...>]

Hi Steve,

Following on from your earlier question on CGI reliance, I took a look at
mod_perl and realised I might've been over-complicating things a bit with
Anubis.  In response, I've heavily simplified this latest release down to:

1 TCP/IP database server (using IO::Socket)
1 TCP/IP database client (using Term::Readline)

You can download anubis-0.04.tar.gz (only 7kb) from:
=> http://download.sourceforge.net/perldb/

I've tried to get as much installation information as I could into the README
file, but basically you:

*. Run create_pdb.pl to create the initial database dictionary
*. Run anubis_server.pl in the background to run a TCP/IP database server
daemon
*. Run anubis_client.pl to run a dbish-like client in the foreground to
interract with the database server and do stuff.

And that's about it, with hopefully minimal requirements of:

Perl5
DBD-RAM
TCP/IP running on your local (andor remote) host

It's all still very experimental but I think it's definitely getting somewhere.
 I'm still groping blindly in the dark a bit, like a heavily sedated amoeba,
towards a forking TCP/IP server, which gives each calling client a dedicated
connection, but once that hurdle is cleared, we can try and make much more use
of Jeff Zucker's rapidly expanding DBD-RAM functionality, ramp up some Perl/Tk
clients andor start building a DBD::Anubis driver, to give an initial minimal
set of DBI hook functions into the new daemonesque database server, perhaps
with an interim target of getting dbish to work with it, as for other
databases.

If anyone would like to help Hugo and I push this thing trolley along further,
please let me know.  IO::Socket gurus who know how to create $dbh database
handles, created by DBD::RAM, accessible over forked TCP/IP links, will *not*
be asked for references :-) :-) :-)

Rgds,
AndyD

PS. Thank goodness for the Perl Cookbook.  May Tom Christiansen and Nathan
Torkington be blessed in their blessedness.

=====
The Perl Database
=> http://www.perldb.com/

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com/