1 2============================================================================== 3NEWSGROUPS (REGULAR) 4-------------------- 5Subject: ANNOUNCE: ePerl 2.2.0 (Embedded Perl 5 Language) 6Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, 7 comp.lang.perl.misc, 8 de.comp.lang.perl, 9 sdm.announce 10 11NEWSGROUPS (MODERATED) 12---------------------- 13Subject: SOFTWARE: ePerl 2.2.0 (Embedded Perl 5 Language) 14To: www-announce@boutell.com 15Subject: ePerl 2.2.0 (Embedded Perl 5 Language) 16To: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov 17 18MAILING-LISTS 19------------- 20Subject: ANNOUNCE: ePerl 2.2.0 (Embedded Perl 5 Language) 21To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com, 22 perl5-porters@perl.org 23============================================================================== 24 25 After a long 2.2 beta cycle I'm proud to release... 26 ____ _ 27 ___| _ \ ___ _ __| | 28 / _ \ |_) / _ \ '__| | 29 | __/ __/ __/ | | | 30 \___|_| \___|_| |_| 31 32 ePerl -- Embedded Perl 5 Language 33 34 <URL:http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/> 35 36 Version 2.2.0 (18-07-1997) 37 38 ePerl interprets an ASCII file bristled with Perl 5 program statements by 39 evaluating the Perl 5 code while passing through the plain ASCII data. It 40 can operate in various ways: As a stand-alone Unix filter or integrated Perl 41 5 module for general file generation tasks and as a powerful Webserver 42 scripting language for dynamic HTML page programming. 43 44 Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Ralf S. Engelschall, All rights reserved. 45 46 Summary of Program 47 ================== 48 49 o Implementation: - ANSI C 50 o Min Requirements: - underlaying Unix derivate 51 - ANSI C compiler 52 - already installed Perl 5.004 (full functionality) 53 or at least 5.003+EMBED (minimum functionality) 54 o Distribution: - freely available 55 - no charge 56 - GNU General Public License or Artistic License 57 o Status: - Genesis: March 1996 58 - First major release: March 1996 (1.0) 59 - Last major release: April 1997 (2.1) 60 - stable 61 62 Major Changes from Version 2.1 to 2.2 63 ===================================== 64 65 o Changed Quotation/Delimiter Parsing 66 o Smarter and Optimized Parser 67 o Support for '=' block prefix 68 o HTML entity conversion inside ePerl blocks 69 o Perl Taint and Warning modes now available 70 o New ePerl Preprocessor 71 o New option -I for include path 72 o New Perl 5 interface module for ePerl parser: Parse::ePerl 73 o New ePerl emulation handler for Apache+mod_perl: Apache::ePerl 74 o New option -h for consistency ;-) 75 o First attempt to write a converter from (X)SSI to ePerl 76 o Built-in GIF images 77 o Enhanced portability 78 o Compiles and runs out-of-the-box on major Unix derivates. 79 80