Re: About LWP in general??

sorry to post this to the list, but i've tried and failed to  
unsubscribe from this list.  can someone please help??

eli


On Sep 12, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Reinier Post wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, chris choi wrote:
>> Hi
>> I'm new to Perl, but considering writing web robots/Spiders in  
>> Perl, but I'm
>> not too sure if the LWP is out-dated or something cause I haven't  
>> heard
>> anything about LWP recently, so I was wondering if you guys know  
>> if there is
>> a new thing to write WEB robots with on PERL??
>
> No, the LWP is not at all outdated, and very much the standard Web  
> client library
> for Perl, as far as I'm aware.  There is little development  
> activity goes on, but
> in this case, as far as I'm aware, this is not a sign of  
> abandonment, but of
> maturity: the library is finished and does what it was designed to do.
> Gisle Aas, its maintainer, monitors this list for feature requests and
> bug reports, and occasionally creates a new LWP version in response.
>
> Yes, there are newer libraries specifically for writing Web robots  
> in Perl;
> some of them are in CPAN, and are frequently mentioned here;  
> WWW::Mechanize
> is the name I see most often.  These libraries all use LWP, as far  
> as I'm aware,
> and you are definitely advised to use them instead of building your  
> own directly
> on top of LWP.  However, I do not use any of them at the moment, so  
> I cannot
> give you more information.
>
>> thanks
>> Chris
>
> -- 
> Reinier Post
> TU Eindhoven