[Asterisk-Users] New Module app_perl

[Steven Critchfield]

While I can only comment on what was on the list and not about what may
have been sent privately, I think some of the comments should have been
taken more lightly as they just showed you more ways to do it. 

I admit that it is cool to have been able to do that, I have
reservations about "mod_perl"ing a dialplan. Perl is not known for being
light weight. Also mod_perl is known for requiring a restart for code
changes to be evident. 

Please don't construe what I said there to be a flame, or a reason not
to continue exploring that project. I prefer my perl to be cgi styled so
that it goes away when I'm done. Although I could see redoing my oncall
redirector in a mod_perl function. I already have done it in perl via
AGI, and via PGSQL in extensions.conf. So far I have stuck to using the
PGSQL route because it is one less item to fail.

If you are a perl programmer just remember TIMTOWTDI.

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:19, Anthony Minessale wrote:
> ok forget it .... 
>  
> I was telling a story of what inspired me to write this module 
> that embeds a perl interpreter into the asterisk process and 
> to see if anyone was interested in it (IT'S AN EXPERIMENT)
> What I get are several replies telling me to RTFM and I would no
> longer need to solve the problem that inspired my original idea.
>  
> Does it matter if my original problem could be resolved 
> by RTFM or not?.  I'm glad I did'nt't or I would never have gotten the
> Idea since the end-result is barely related to that problem.
>  
> Testing expressions in variables is not even the reason to use the
> module
> the module allows you to run perl code from within and perform 
> a whole bunch of tasks using perl  (RTFM) The example I put 
> in the README just happens to show how to perform an eval
> on an expression using the new perl functionality the module 
> implements
>  
>  I could just as easily show an example how to 
> connect to a database on startup and create extensions 
> on the fly or how to make a web server that runs inside asterisk 
> (If any of these already are possible sorry again for being inventive
> or for wanting to do it in perl whichever you want to hang me for.)
>  
> Sheesh 
>  
> Please don't bother to further discern what I did and did not read 
> or to look for a typo and flame me for it. This list gets enough
> traffic as it is  and there is no need to waste bandwidth to tell me 
> I don't totally 
> know how to work asterisk cos I already know I'm simply playing with
> it.
>  
> I only have 2 weeks total experience with asterisk so I can tell 
> you in advance I have a ton of docs to read.  I just thought 
> I'd share my findings so far since I was under the impression this was
> a forum. sorry...... 
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