Terrence Brannon writes:
> Hi, I managed to get Bivio-BOP up and running under Apache 1.3. In
> doing so, I have a few notes and questions
>
> + does bop run under plain CGI?

Sort of. If you make a Bivio::ShellUtil (see Bivio::PetShop::Util.pm
as an example), you can call bOP as a program. At the same time, we
don't recommend this. bOP loads many classes at startup to create an
integrated application environment, and that takes time.

> + Here is the one change I had to make to apache/httpd.conf in the
> bivio dist to get things working:
> #LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/libperl.so
> LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_perl.so

Thanks. What OS was this for?

> + perl2html is required and it apparently has to be in /usr/bin
> . it would be nice if the entire bivio package could run without any
> dependencies on directories with root perms
> . certainly the dependency on this module should be in the README

perl2html converts the documentation. We'll try to figure out how to
decouple it from the demo.

> + Because CPAN modules sometimes change APIs and because perl -MCPAN
> does not work so well for me at my webhost,

What version of perl and CPAN is this?

> it would be nice if
> all the modules required for the current Bivio release were
> downloadable in a tarball.

It is a pain. Given the large variety of OS configurations, it would
be impossible to do this. The CPAN install should work. In addition,
not all support modules are necessary. It depends on what parts of
bOP you use.

> + I presume there still is no mailing list for your module? If there
> is, I would like to know about it.

Bivio-bOP@yahoogroups.com is a list we use. Feel free to join and
discuss.

A couple of things you might want to know about bOP. Few if any
people outside of the local bivio community are using bOP. We use it
intensively, and we actively update bOP. This means you will see
non-compatible changes on occassion, such as the recent change to
Bivio::Type::Number.

> Regards,
> --
> Terrence Brannon, sundevil@..., http://www.livingcosmos.org

Thanks for the feedback. We'll update the README with this info.

Rob