Re: Perl Monk Hackers

There's nothing to stop anyone here from grabbing a fresh copy of the Everything Core and making their own modules for it. I've tinkered around with it somewhat, and although the learning curve is not unlike rock climbing, once you get a handle on it you can really go places fast. Don't expect a book from O'Reilly on the subject any time soon. This is cutting edge, and the documentation is way behind the program.

Assuming one were bold enough to grab the kit, install it, and whatnot, you can write your own "modules" for it that are easy to package and distribute. These are called, whimsically, "nodeballs", and can be installed in a snap. At least in theory.

So, if you're really feeling energetic, grab it, make something neat. There's no point in going on about "wouldn't it be great if..." when you actually could be doing something about it.

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Re: Re: Perl Monk Hackers by srawls (Friar) on Jul 04, 2001 at 21:55 UTC
Thanks for the information, I didn't even know you could do that! Sadly, though, I cannot use it: I don't have apache, and when I went to download that, I didn't have some other thing, and when I went to download that, my system didn't have the right dll's. Oh well, mabey if I ever get around to getting a unix system I can use it. The 15 year old, freshman programmer, Stephen Rawls	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Monk Hackers by tadman (Prior) on Jul 05, 2001 at 07:22 UTC
Installing it is never easy. However, if UNIX is the major hurdle, you can always run it side-by-side on your current system in a multi-boot fashion, or even at the same time using a virtual machine program like VMWare which offers a 30 day trial download. That way you really don't have to do much at all, and if you have a spare 3GB drive, you can install onto it without repartitioning. Since Apache, Perl, and MySQL are all available for Windows, though, there is no real reason why Everything cannot be ported to the Windows environment. The only issue might be compiling some of the modules it uses, but a friend with a compiler would solve that problem. Just a thought.	[reply]