Rene Schickbauer <rene.schickba...@gmail.com> writes: > Would you be interested in helping out in the Maplat Web Framework?
It may take me a while even to figure out what it is. The tiny little synopsis at: http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/Maplat/Maplat.html seems less than helpful other than pointing to other modules. SYNOPSIS: The Maplat Framework is divided into various parts, mainly Maplat::Helpers, Maplat::Worker and Maplat::Web. DESCRIPTION There are currently three parts of the Framework. Maplat::Web is the WebGUI system, i.e. the part of the framework that helps you render the webbased graphical interface. Maplat::Web is based on HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI and has (alpha level) support for SSL and preforking. Maplat::Worker is the background system. All long-running tasks (more than a second or so) should be done with one or more background worker. Maplat::Helpers is a library of modules with various helper modules like special date parsing, sendmail-a-file and things like that. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Then looking those up on cpan, some of the listed modules apparently do not really exist, instead there are dozens of modules with those elements in the name, One (Maplat::Web) has its own synopsis: SYNOPSIS The webgui module is the one responsible for loading all actual rendering modules, dispatches calls and handles the browser requests. DESCRIPTION This webgui is "the root of all evil". It loads and configures the rendering modules, dispatches browser requests and callbacks/hooks and renders the occasional 404 error messages if no applicable module for the the browsers request is found. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Maybe that kind of comment is really useful to everybody else.. but I don't get any idea what this pertains to. So apparently if you want to know what `Maplat' is about, you have to track down dozens of modules and read all the synopsis, and descriptions. Of course someone wanting to get involved would read all that at some point but just to decide if you are interested, it seems like you'd want a real synopsis. The few I tracked down before deciding there must be a full explanation in one piece somewhere, were equally less than helpful as the first synopsis Example for Maplat::Helpers::BuildNum DESCRIPTION This module is used in conjunction with compiled perl scripts (e.g. when compiled with ActiveState tools or similar). It's very usefull when upgrading a server to know the build numbers (see below) of a compiled perl program. When used in a scripted environment, the build number is generated on the fly. Doesn't leave you with an idea what the project is about. I'm pretty sure I'm overlooking a full description somewhere of what `Maplat web Framwork' is all about. Can you provide a URL? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
