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Apache AxKit 1.5.1 Released

posted by pudge on 2002.03.19 23:23   

Matts writes " The AxKit team are proud to announce the first release of the AxKit codebase under the Apache banner. A small team of hard working developers have feverishly worked away to bring you this release. As usual, the code is available for download directly from axkit.org, or via CPAN, where you will also find the AxKit-Needs distribution, which contains everything you need to get an AxKit server up and running as fast as possible, including all prerequisite C libraries and Perl modules."

For those of you who are new to AxKit, please also note that this month perl.com are running an introductory article on AxKit, which begins a series of articles from initial installation to building large scale dynamic web sites.

This release is mostly a bug fix release over AxKit 1.5, fixing a few minor issues listed below:

• AxKit now allows XSP pages to return a HTTP result code to make redirects and other HTTP status codes easier.
• Added options to allow form/querystring params to *not* be passed to XSLT processing.
• A number of XSP bug fixes, including broken namespaces prefix issues.
• Fixed all Plugins to return the constant OK, as needed.
• All plugins renamed to Apache::AxKit::Plugin namespace (old installs should continue to work by virtue of the old file remaining).
• added SimpleTaglib, a powerful TaglibHelper alternative that uses Perl 5.6.0 method attributes to define functions which are taglibs.
• added beginnings of a demo site, not yet fully functional, but already contains some useful example code.

• Houston, we have a problem (Score:5, Insightful)

  by rjray (1649) on 2002.03.20 2:01 (#6137) Homepage Journal

  While AxKit is a great piece of software, the AxKit-Needs distribution is a bad idea. When I run the cpan shell, it thinks that I need to update XML::LibXML, and to do that it would like to download a 7.1M tarfile called AxKit-Needs.tar.gz. Wouldn't it have been better to have created a Bundle::AxKit package?

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  • Re:Houston, we have a problem (Score:5, Informative)

    by Matts (1087) on 2002.03.20 2:59 (#6138) Journal

    Eek. AxKit-Needs was specifically mean not to show up on the radar of CPAN, but just use the CPAN mirror system. I'll have to rethink that and pull it from CPAN in the meantime.

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    • Re:Houston, we have a problem (Score:1)

      by dmarner (265)

      This mistake worked out both good and bad for me. Bad in that CPAN claimed to have installed XML::LibXML, but had not. Good in that I found that module and several others I was going to need already hanging out in .cpan/build/AxKit-Needs/perl/ ready for manual installation. (Building a new box, grabbing my usual toolkit).

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