Re: [MacPerl] ParallelUserAgent and MacPerl

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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.

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