Re: [MacPerl] ParallelUserAgent and MacPerl

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.19980716081031.A24323@schinder.clark.net>, "Paul J.
Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:39:02AM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>} At 04.00 -0400 1998.07.16, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>} >Has anyone tried using the ParallelUserAgent distribution (from the CPAN)
>} >with MacPerl? (It is an extension of the LWP dist, allowing you to
>} >download multiple Web pages in parallel.)
>} >
>} >I tried but encountered some resistance, and since I remembered that LWP
>} >needed some porting to allow its use with MacPerl I thought I'd check
>} >before trying further.
>} 
>} I think that is the LWPng distribution, right?  If so, I believe it uses
>} forking and/or threads, which MacPerl does not yet have, so it would not
>} work.
>
>No, it's something earlier whose functionality got incorporated into
>LWPng.  I've got it here on the Linux side, and a quick look shows
>that it's using select (IO::Select in particular).  So it may well
>work.  Jeff will have to give it a try and see.

I thought the two distributions were evolving in parallel, since the
ParallelUserAgent distribution on the CPAN is newer than the LWPng (but
only by 10 days, and the latter is an alpha...).

Anyway, thanks--I'll give it another try. The test script failed somewhere
inside of IO::Select (at a non-obvious place), but it could just be a bug
in the test (time to learn to use the debugger, I guess).
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