Perl on App Engine?(App Engine支持Perl怎么样?)

I am a Perl hacker. I have written parts of the core, created CPAN modules and written tons of perl code. In fact I am addicted to it ; or rather, CPAN. I have been wanting to play around with Google App Engine, but I haven't had time to get up to speed in Python. Today at OSCON I met up with Brad Fitzpatrick, who told me he had permission from Google to talk about and work on a Perl on App Engine project.

He makes it clear that,

I'm happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine.  To be clear:  I'm not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine team is not promising to add Perl support.  They're just saying that I (along with other Perl hackers here at Google) are now allowed to work on this 20% project of ours out in the open where other Perl hackers can help us out, should you be so inclined.

The plan is to harden Perl (one layer of defense in App Engine's hardened environment); implement Protocol Buffers and stubs of the backend services, so people can write App Engine applications on their local servers.

There is more information at Brad's LiveJournal, as well as the the Perl-AppEngine project. Capturing the creative spirit here at OSCON, Brad and I hacked together a new module that emulates a protected environment, Sys::Protect (generally good idea for any web application).

翻译：Michael J.

我喜欢Perl，写了核心的一些部分，还包括CPAN模块和很多Perl代码。实际上我非常迷恋Perl，也许说迷恋CPAN更适合。这段我一直想玩玩Google的App Engine，但由于Python进展不大。今天在O'Reilly开源大会上我遇到了Brad Fitzpatrick，他告诉我Google允许他着手一个App Engine上跑Perl的项目。

他谈到：

我很高兴地宣布App Engine团队许可透漏Google内部的一个20%项目，该项目致力于给App Engine增加Perl支持。需要澄清的是：我不是App Engine团队成员，App Engine也没有承诺增加Perl支持。他们仅仅是说我（以及其他在Google的Perl骇客）现在被允许着手这个20%项目，其他Perl骇客可以帮助我们，您应该会有兴趣。

这一计划将会规范Perl（App Engine环境中是单层防护）；操作Protocol Buffers和后端服务的stubs，从而你将可以在自己服务器上写App Engine应用。

在Brad的博客上有更多信息，以及这个Perl-AppEngine项目的情况。您可以从O'Reilly开源大会上找到开创精神。Brad和我做了一个模拟受保护环境的新模块——Sys::Protect（对任何Web应用都会有帮助）。