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Adrian Midgley wrote: > > Looks nice and simple.. 24,000 lines of advanced Perl is simple ?! I think software is like ducks paddling, to make it look effortless and clean far more goes on unseen than you could ever imagine. > How about support? Preferably of the paid variety. Plone etc have an > ecology, does this? Yes there is a Perl ecology, but it is smaller than you might think given the amount of code they produce. Nothing in the code looks especially particular to the program, so I expect any serious Perl hacker could support and hack this code (Not sure I'd class myself there yet, I could hack it, but the results might not be maintainable). It is kind of Aaron's bread and butter stuff. A quick search in Google for "Powered by mwforum" can answer the user base question. Not huge. Mod-perl is a pain hosting wise, means either it should be managed by the hosting company, or run in a virtual/dedicated server. But it isn't essential by the looks of it, and if you are doing it on your own server it is pretty easy (especially if you don't have tonnes of other complex Perl code on the same server). Wonder what it is about threaded discussion forums that make them so unpopular?! My guess is the lousy threading display in most of them, and that email with an archive does the job just as well if people follow the rules. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html