I've decided to ditch this project. Sorry, I guess I won't be updating this node in any major way.

Here's what I've discovered:

• Not many people code for perl on netware. Bad sign.
• perl on netware is known to "abend" (crash) servers. Not good either. The site I would be making on this project would rely on perl so much that I really think of this as a risk.
• The perl version ported to netware is kind of old (5.0005 or something) and doesn't have all modules available to it
• mySQL doesn't run on netware, causing a whole slew of other problems for me (setting up the mySQL db on another server, using flat files, Oracle, etc.)
• I don't feel like developing for a platform that I'll never develop for again.

I have enough paying gigs. I don't feel like dealing with all this crap. Another issue was that the client didn't want to give me an FTP account, so I'd have to email them zipped archives of the site when I wanted to do updates. Amazing. Not very good for debugging. . .

Sorry for sketching out on this.

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