Fwd: Re: Fwd: Win32 Talk

[Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com>]

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From: "Sean O'Leary" <roleary@metalsusa.com>
Organization: Metals USA - i-Solutions Group
To: phl@lists.pm.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Win32 Talk
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:32:34 -0500
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> 
>           A few weeks ago I downloaded an application suit from NuSphere.
> It's a 24 meg download that includes Perl, PHP, MySQL, and Apache for the
> selected platform. Once downloaded and unzipped, over 4,500 files and 65
> megs later, the entire package installed flawlessly in less than two minutes.
> Click on one icon to start Apache and MySQL. It's mind boggling if you have
> ever struggled with installing and configuring the various packages.
> 
>          In addition, there is the complete online documentation for all 
> packages.
> 
>          Check it out at http://nusphere.com
> 
> Urb

Ummmm..... WOW. : )

That's really about all I can say.  I'll check this out at home tonight.  If it
woks on my 98 machine, I'll be totally amazed.  If I can set it up to use my
existing Perl installation (all the modules etc) I'll be even more impressed.
They could market the hell out of this as like "Dynamic Website in a Box" or
something. : )

The basics of my compiling vs. packages thing was just to say that if you don't
compile it yourself, you really can't use modules straight off CPAN, unless
they 100% Perl.  I'll see if I can build a module or two - maybe a few big
ones like Tk or something under this distro tonight.  If so, I'll have to do
some rethinking.  

Wow... cool OSS with slick installers... what a deal!

Thanks,

Sean.

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