Re: [cgiapp] For those interested... a few new "Alien::*" packages on CPAN...

[Graham TerMarsch <suppressed>]

On Sunday 30 September 2007 4:31 pm, Ron Savage wrote:
> Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> > Thought I'd let the list know that I just uploaded a few of these over to
> > CPAN, in case anyone else finds them of use.
>
> $many x $thanx;

You're welcome. :)

I've used them here locally for a while in my own projects, and am finally 
getting around to cleaning out a bunch of stuff that I should've uploaded to 
CPAN ages ago.

> And, has anyone written up a comparison of these (JS) libraries?

I'm sure its out there, but URLs don't come to mind.

That said, all the JS libraries in these Alien packages are somewhat 
complimentary; I'm using all of them together on at least one project.

Only thing to watch out for, though, is that many of the JS libraries come 
with their own bundled copy of "Prototype" (http://www.prototypejs.org/), and 
the provided version varies depending on when those JS libraries were 
released.  With the current versions of these Alien packages on CPAN, 
the "Alien::scriptaculous" package has the most recent version; if you're 
installing files from multiple packages, do this one last. :)

I'd considered the idea of setting up a separate "Alien::prototype" package to 
contain the latest version of Prototype and then have everything else depend 
on that instead, but haven't yet had a chance to fully think about how to 
handle things like version conflicts or dependencies on old copies of 
Prototype.  So, for now at least, each of these Alien:: packages 
comes "standalone" and has no requirements on any other Alien:: package.

-- 
Graham TerMarsch
Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc.

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