[Zope] ANN: Perl For Zope

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar@maxnm.com
Thu, 25 May 2000 19:18:09 +0300


Chris Withers wrote:

> I have to say, I'm not convinced it is. Providing Perl methods is like
> drilling a hole through a dyke wall. By getting loads of perl
> programmers on board, you suddenly have a large userbase wishing they
> can do more in perl, so you implement perl products. (yes, I've read the
> FAQ too, hence my politicians comment...)
> 
> This userbase gets into hacking the core and bring perl into there.

Yeah, but for that you'd need to be able to import Python code into Perl, or
alternatively reimplement all those core classes (ObjectManager, etc.).  And
integrate Perl code with ZODB (pickle instances of perl classes.)  Why would
anyone spend time doing that?

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Itamar S.T.  itamar@maxnm.com