Re: Maypole and I - Tales from the Frontier of a Relationship

Hey, Thanks for the great review. Having beaten Maypole with a stick myself I appreciate seeing this info out there for new commers. I hated most that non of its documentation even seems to address the problems it has. Of course once you find the problem it is normaly easy to find the answers in the documentation, unfortunatly 90% of my time was spent trying to figure out what the problem was.

On the plus side once I got it working it seems pretty nifty, as it matures and gets some better examples, documentation, and some of the patches integrated with it, it should be an amazing framework. With some effort (read lots and lots of effort) Maypole can even be convinced to run on Apached2 mod_perl 1.99

Thanks for the great review, perhaps you could make some of your Maypole accomplishments available for others to try out.

PS one of my biggest problems turned out to be an error in the TT macro file provided with it. So if you have problems with relative links look there.

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Eric Hodges

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Re^2: Maypole and I - Tales from the Frontier of a Relationship by shenme (Priest) on Sep 05, 2004 at 19:59 UTC
Could you immortalize your "lots and lots of effort" with hints, pointers and/or code? I also see that CountZero mentioned problems. Update: Now that I'm peeking over Maypole maillist archives I see people saying they've gotten it working under Apache2. Might you look at a couple of the msgs like msg332 and thence to msg248 to see how they compare with your experiences?	[reply]
Re^3: Maypole and I - Tales from the Frontier of a Relationship by eric256 (Parson) on Sep 06, 2004 at 05:53 UTC
Those are indeed the two posts I eventualy found. I admit I didn't search the mail lists as early as I should have. That was definitly an error on my part. After working my way threw those two patches wich are a good starting block, and then manageing to get Apache::Request to install, which involved some hand installing of modules (instead of CPAN) and some reinstalling of core modules. Two modules (which i can't currently remember) had a recursive dependency (they required each other) that both needed reinstalled before libpreq2 would install. These may not be issues everyone will have but the bewildered me for quite some time. Note that I had never touched Apache (1 or 2) and any form of mod_perl, so these might all be issues that more experienced users fix without even blinking. :) Best of luck and from now on I know to search mailing lists first! ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]