[Zope] Pyperl installation with ActivePython - still having problems

[Fred Yankowski]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:43:17PM +0100, Ulrich Wisser wrote:
> I know you have customer asking for this, but please be
> assured, ZopePerl is dead. The project was started some
> years ago and nobody ever got it really running. Everybody
> who has been involved in the development has long left the
> project. The code is very old and most probably not working
> in newer Python / Zope versions.

Ulrich's other warnings above are valid, but pyperl does work on
recent Zope versions.  At the least, it runs well enough to support a
fairly complicated perl application (that, for example, uses the perl
ParallelUserAgent module) in Zope 2.6.1 (Python 2.1.3, on Linux
2.4.22, with Perl 5.6.1 built into pyperl).

But I would not recommend pyperl, both for the reasons Ulrich gave and
because pyperl is a pain to build, use, and maintain.  The pyperl
developers did a nice job, but the Python/Perl interface is inherently
tricky.  We hope to port the perl code in the application I mentioned
above to become pure python code.

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