i'm happy to report that mod_parrot now comes bundled with mod_pugs!
mod_pugs uses pugs (http://pugscode.org) to let you write apache handlers
in perl6, and runs as an HLL layer on top of mod_parrot. pugs' parrot
backend compiler is still very immature, so you still can't do many of the
things you can do in pugs proper. but you can still see how far we've
come:
module My::PugsHandler;
sub _handler($r)
{
$r.puts("<H1>This is a Pugs handler!</H1>");
return 0;
}
put that in pugs' @INC path, and the following apache config will
configure the handler for the location /pugs/test on your server:
<Location /pugs/test>
SetHandler parrot-code
ParrotLanguage pugs
ParrotHandler My::PugsHandler
</Location>
next on the todo list is to implement more handlers, more methods (so far
only puts and content_type are supported) and rewrite some parts
of mod_pugs in pugs itself. if you want to try it out, check out the
latest revisions of both mod_parrot and pugs from subversion (released
versions will NOT WORK). the eg directory contains a working example and
configuration.
http://svn.perl.org/parrot-modules/mod_parrot
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs
-jeff
