$Id: README,v 1.1 2000/11/23 23:36:13 muaddib Exp $

General Information
-------------------

PSP-Base is a set of classes which provides the mechanisms to create and
configure a pile, to associate an incoming request with a pile method, and
to render the output of the pile to the requester and/or to handle
exceptions thrown by the method.

PSP is an object-oriented web development system which allows the
construction of dynamic content from a set of files that resemble HTML with
some perl inline markup.  It has a driver (optimized for FastCGI and
mod_perl), a compiler, and a set of extensions to facilitate the rapid and
easy to maintain development of medium to large scale web applications.

The current official home of PSP is likely to change but is currently:

 http://psp.sourceforge.net

The latest distribution can be found in

 http://download.sourceforge.net/psp/


Installation
------------

PSP is expected to compile and run on all systems which have perl5.004 or
later installed.  PSP is known to compile and run on the following systems:

 - Linux (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x)
 - Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, 7)
 - Digital UNIX 4.0
 - NetBSD 1.4

Full installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file.
To build,

  perl Makefile.PL
  make all
  make install

Usage
-----

More info here later.


Mailing Lists
-------------

If you would like to receive announcements regarding future releases, and
related low-traffic information, please subscribe to the PSP announce
mailing list at psp-announce@erf.net.  To subscribe, send e-mail to
Majordomo@erf.net containing "subscribe psp-announce your-email-address" in
its body (without quotes).

If you are planning to hack on PSP, please subscribe to the PSP development
mailing list at psp-dev@erf.net.  To subscribe, send e-mail to
Majordomo@erf.net containing "subscribe psp-dev your-email-address" in its
body (without quotes).


Copyright
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Copyright (c) 2000, FundsXpress Financial Network, Inc.


Disclaimer
----------

This library is free software released "AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS"
and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License, Version 2.1, a copy of which can be
found in the "COPYING" file of this distribution.


James Jurach <muaddib@erf.net>
