Re: Glimpse.pm anyone?

[Golda Velez <gvelez@iwhome.com>]

Do you mean for calling perl scripts from glimpse?  Sure, that would be
quite useful, and no, we don't have such a module.  Right now our best
solution for filters, etc is the lex shared libraries that Christian Vogler
wrote a while back (and which I have available for testing if anyone wants,
just e-mail me because they are not posted publicly on the site yet). 

As far as the licensing goes, I don't see a major problem - it can just be
a separate piece that people download and add on themselves, not too much
hassle considering the added performance.  I can link to GPL'd files from
the download area, I just can't package them with glimpse in the tarfile.

Now - pardon my ignorance, but I would love to understand better how to
write such a module without having to call the perl interpreter!  Can you
point me to some useful docs?  I did try the perl-to-C converters without
much luck, I think that is not the right way to go. 

Thanks, hope to work with you on this!

--Golda

At 03:56 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
>Has anyone written a Perl module for glimpse?  I'm thinking of something
>that would allow perl scripts to use with glimpse without needing to
>fork/exec.  In the context of glimpseserver usage this could be a big
>performance win.
>
>If no one had tackled this one I might be interested in doing it.  I'm
>wondering what kind of license I could put such a module under.  I imagine
>I could GPL it if I could build it without using any Glimpse, but then it
>couldn't ever be distributed with Glimpse.  Any thoughts?  Are there other
>Free add-ons to Glimpse that have solved this problem already?
>
>Thanks!
>-sam
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