ANNOUNCE: Embperl 2.4.0

The URL

http://www.embperl.org/downloads/Embperl-2.4.0.tar.gz

has entered CPAN as

file: $CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRICHTER/Embperl-2.4.0.tar.gz
size: 732920 bytes
md5: 2d4e3a903a04fcc559718342fa37753f


Major Improvements are that Embperl now supports Perl up to 5.12.2 and
a lot of additions to Embperl::Form, a module for building smart webforms.

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Embperl is a system for building dynamic websites with Perl.

It gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML/XML documents and=20
the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an=20
object-oriented style.=20

Embperl has several features which are especially useful for creating=20
Websites, including dynamic tables, form field processing, URL=20
escaping/unescaping, session handling, caching, xslt transformation and=20
more.

See http://perl.apache.org/embperl/ (english) or=20
http://www.ecos.de/embperl/ (german) for more information.
(website is not updated yet, but this will follow shortly)

Enjoy=20

Gerald


Changes since 2.3.0:

- Supports now Perl 5.12: Cope with changed flags G_ARRAY
and G_SCALAR, SVt_RV is now SVt_IV

- Support for CGI.pm 3.43 (included within Perl 5.10.1)
for file uplaods. CGI.pm < 2.43 is not supported anymore.

- A lot of enhancements for Embperl::Form

- Add example for usage of Embperl::Form. See=20
eg/forms/README.txt. Can be viewed used using "make start"

- Increased size limit for errormessage from 1024 to 4096

- Makefile.PL can now handle compiling 32Bit code on 64Bit=20
sytsem if Perl was compiled as 32Bit application

- Adaption of tests to changed error messages of perl 5.10

- Makefile.PL can now cope with OpenSuSE 11.2, if perl,
mod_perl and apache are installed from OpenSuSE packages.

- Fix make test error for Perl compiled with DEBUGGING on

- Support for internationalization in Emberl::Form

- Do not link against unused libz

- Fix Execute parameter app_name (was appname, but app_name
is correct, appname is still accepted, but might not always
work)

- Add parameter checks for Execute parameters to avoid segfaults
in case of non refs where refs are expected.

- Add more controls to Embperl::Form