[Petal] Petal 0.82 Released

[Mark Holland]

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>Optional mini-poll: I'd be curious to know what you're using Petal
>for... Same question to other people on the list, just out of curiosity!
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Initially I used petal to replace all my old mason templates. Although I 
don't edit pages in a gui, it's far nicer writing tal templates than <% 
asp-like %> crap.

So far with Petal I have built:-

-At the bank I work for I have developed a support request tracking 
system and an admin interface to their major trading system. This system 
is apache/mod_perl/mason/petal with a sybase server running on a 
sparc.With 14G of spare ram I cache everything in memory and it is 
speedy as hell ;-)

-Secondly im working on a soon-to-be-released website 
(www.peripatetic.co.nz). It's a photo album/journal of a guy's world 
travels with an admin interface that uses ImageMagick to generate 
thumbnails, process images etc. This one is running on my far humbler 
linux machine, with the same apache/mod_perl/mason/petal setup on a 
mysql database. All the same, given that the machine is running mail 
services for a number of users and running quite a few other sites, it's 
still pretty damn quick.

I have some other web based projects in the pipeline and rest assured I 
shall be using Petal for these too.

Cheers,
Mark