Wanted -Freeware Perl Bug Tracker

[Brett_Tabke]

Looking for a Bug Tracker that fits this bill:

- 100% Perl
- Flat files - no sql dbs or other third party dbs.
- 100% Freeware - no trials, no "lite" versions, no phone homeware, no expireware.

[Lisa]

Join the PHP people. Perl is old school webpage technology. I think there are lots of PHP bug trackers on freshmeat.

[gcross]

That's sad. I just completed an "advanced" web design class at my local community college and the peak of the course was Perl and CGI.

Oh, well, they were the only things I WASN'T self-trained on.

<--swallowing bitter pill

Ok...how does one get started with PHP... and... what does PHP stand for?

[Brett_Tabke]

I don't like PHP in a Win9x environment. Very difficult to setup, slow to use, I feel perl runs rings around it, and is 10 fold easier to install and maintain. You can also do things with it then that php will never do.

Now, back to a bug tracker... I sure can't find one...

[randomuser]

[aardvarkind.com...]

it's not very good.. i'm working on version 2, but it uses SQL. the demo is down, but it's very basic. [bugs.ikonboard.com...] is the only site i can find that is using it. they modified the template a smidge, of course.

[randomuser]

and lisa... what makes php so much better than mod_perl? not to start a flame war, but your post was rather incindiary (sp). perl 5 may be a bit old, but perl 6 (whenever it comes out..) is looking like it'll be pretty nifty.

[Lisa]

I think there are some PHP vs Perl threads around here somewhere. If not you may want to start one to ask the strengths and weaknesses of both. I think it would be interesting to compare them again.

Don't get me wrong, I personally love perl. I use perl for most of my system programming. But I don't use it for webpages.

When I create webpages I find PHP much easier to script in. PHP was designed directly for creating webpages. PHP stands for something like "Personal Home Page" language. Perl is the duck tape of programming languages. It will do almost anything almost anywhere. You can still find lots of programs written in Perl. But it looks like the web world is slowly migrating over to PHP for web apps.

Perl requires lots of extra work like importing and other things like that. In PHP I can spit things out right in the middle of my HTML like this <?= date("Y"?>, and that would have shown the current year. Now that is pretty darn convent in my book.

My comment was because I know Brett is a die hard Perl guy and I recall the last bug tracker I set up for someone was called, Mantis, and that was PHP based. But if we take a look at Freshmeat we will see there are plenty of Perl Bug Trackers out there.

Here is a list of Perl Bug trackers [freshmeat.net](30)

Here is a list of PHP Bug trackers [freshmeat.net](25)

[DrDoc]

PHP stands for something like "Personal Home Page"
Well, it used to stand for "Professional Home Pages" .. but not anymore ;)

Nowadays it stands for "PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor"

Just a sidenote ..

[scotty]

For free/open source software, I will start with Freshmeat to see whether it has any projects listed. For example, going down to the Bug Tracking category and search for per [freshmeat.net]...

Most of them will require DB back end I think. There were two products that we have evaluated at work before - Bugzilla [bugzilla.org] and Request Tracker [fsck.com]. However, both of them are quite difficult to set up, and are quite complicated - thous might not be suitable for small jobs. RT requires mod_perl and Mason I think, and I could not remember what Bugzilla requires. At the end, we went with a PHP solution (Mantis [mantisbt.sourceforge.net]) because it is much easier to integrate it with our current service.

And with PHP and Perl - well, Python rules them all :)

[Brett_Tabke]

That's what I'm running into Scotty is that everyone wants a MySQL backend. That's ridiculous for small projects that might have a hundred entries tops.