Event on the 2nd German Perl Workshop

Hello,

just a (hopefully ;-) short report of Event presentation at the conference. Actually there were two talks about the module. I first introduced basic concepts and usage. This was a compact version of the tutorial presented in about 45 minutes. I tried to point out that event driven programming can be used to solve various problems, not only graphical user interaction. Immediately after that, Marc Lehmann gave a clear, descriptive and interesting presentation of an application example. He used Event to scan several hundred news servers simultaniously. I think this combined talk package was ideal to give people an idea what Event provides, how easy it is to use, how powerful features it offers and which type of applications can be written with it.

The feedback showed me that people were really interested. Several people are going to check now if Event can be a solution to solve specific problems. Possibly we'll hear from them on the list.

The following may give you an impression what people were interested in related to Event. Of course, this is only a special spotlight.

One question was portability. It was suggested to ask J. Dubuois (?) from ActiveWare for assistence in NT ports because of its knowledge of NT internals. I just report this without knowing him but I can imagine that ActiveWare people are specialized in this field and have an interest of seeing Perl modules running under "their" platform. Maybe this helps Event as well.

The question of Perl/Tk compatibility is related to the former one, I think.

Somebody wanted to know if Event is used in LWPng. I did not know the module, but now after a first look at the tarball I don't think so.

One person knew a new UNIX kernel mechanism which actively - if I understood and noted this correctly - can inform processes when certain handles are used. He asked if Event supports this mechanism.

                Jochen