Lennart Regebro <regebro (AT) gmail (DOT) comwrote:
10/3/06, Derek Basch <dbasch (AT) yahoo (DOT) comwrote:
I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope.
Is this even possible?
Refactor? No. But it's quite likely that you can redo it quite quickly
with Zope thanks to all the third-party products.
What does you perl code/crap do? What type of site is it?
Thanks for the responses everyone.
Perhaps refactor wasn't the best choice of words. The site is a very large online gaming website
(not gambling). The legacy perl code does many, many things (administration, game play,
accounting, message boards, publishing, mail, etc) and really is around a million lines.
Rewriting the current perl code in python/zope would take a small eternity even with the rapid
development that zope permits.
I saw that the zope-perl project is virtually dead and was hoping that some magical zope to perl
bridge existed. Something that would allow me to use our existing perl code as an external method
or someting similar. Forgive me if my zope terminology is a bit off as I haven't worked with zope
in about three years.
As it stands it looks like I will need to use a PHP or Perl web application framework.
PHP because it has decent Perl to PHP support:
Perl, for obvious reasons. Perhaps something like Catalyst:
However, neither of the above solutions is as enticing as the joy I am sure I would get from Zope.
Which way should I go?
Thanks,
Derek Basch
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From: "Derek Basch" <dbasch (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
To: "Lennart Regebro" <regebro (AT) gmail (DOT) com>; <zope (AT) zope (DOT) org>
Sent: Tuesday, 03, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

Lennart Regebro <regebro (AT) gmail (DOT) comwrote:
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>10/3/06, Derek Basch <dbasch (AT) yahoo (DOT) comwrote:
>I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to
>refactor to Zope.
>Is this even possible?
>>
>Refactor? No. But it's quite likely that you can redo it quite quickly
>with Zope thanks to all the third-party products.
>>
>What does you perl code/crap do? What type of site is it?
>
Thanks for the responses everyone.

Perhaps refactor wasn't the best choice of words. The site is a very large
online gaming website
(not gambling). The legacy perl code does many, many things
(administration, game play,
accounting, message boards, publishing, mail, etc) and really is around
a million lines.
Rewriting the current perl code in python/zope would take a small eternity
even with the rapid
development that zope permits.

I saw that the zope-perl project is virtually dead and was hoping that
some magical zope to perl
bridge existed. Something that would allow me to use our existing perl
code as an external method
or someting similar. Forgive me if my zope terminology is a bit off as I
haven't worked with zope
in about three years.

As it stands it looks like I will need to use a PHP or Perl web
application framework.

PHP because it has decent Perl to PHP support:

Perl, for obvious reasons. Perhaps something like Catalyst:

However, neither of the above solutions is as enticing as the joy I am
sure I would get from Zope.
Which way should I go?

It sounds like you already have a web application (in perl) up and running,
so what do you want Zope (or anything else) to accomplish for you?

Jonathan

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there is some info in zopebook 2.6 edition in the advanced scripting
chapter:

where there are some links in this chapter where it mentions "activestate":

hth,

Josh

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Sorry, just noticed thats already been considered

04/10/06, Josh Burvill <jburvill (AT) gmail (DOT) comwrote:

there is some info in zopebook 2.6 edition in the advanced scripting
chapter:

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where there are some links in this chapter where it mentions
"activestate":

hth,

Josh
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Derek Basch wrote:
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I saw that the zope-perl project is virtually dead and was hoping that some magical zope to perl
bridge existed. Something that would allow me to use our existing perl code as an external method
or someting similar. Forgive me if my zope terminology is a bit off as I haven't worked with zope
in about three years.

As it stands it looks like I will need to use a PHP or Perl web application framework.

The closest thing right now available that might help you is Python WSGI
technology. Zope 3 has WSGI support; Zope 2's support is still
prototypical as far as I know, but Ian Bicking actually mentions work on
this in the blog entry I link to below too.

There has been some work done to bridge PHP into WSGI, allowing PHP
applications can be embedded into Python applications.

What you might be able to do is write something based on WSGI that
allows bridging Perl applications into Python applications. This should
allow you then to embed these Perl applications into a Zope 3 context.

Anyway, not a ready-made answer, but perhaps it will help.

Regards,

Martijn

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