Maplat version 0.90
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Maplat is an integrated webframework with background workers. It
does not need an external webserver.

Maplat is designed to be used in a relativly save intranet environment,
where speed and easy of development take priority over absulote security.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

CGI
Date::Manip
Date::Simple
DBI
DBD::Pg
Digest::MD5
Digest::SHA1
English
FileHandle
File::Spec
File::stat
File::Temp
Getopt::Long
HTML::FormatText
HTML::Parse
IO::Handle
IO::Socket::SSL
Mail::Sendmail
MIME::Base64
MIME::QuotedPrint
Net::Server::PreFork
PDF::Report
Socket
Storable
String::CRC32
Sys::Hostname
Template
Test::More
Time::HiRes
XML::Simple

You should also install one or both of these, depending whats available for your operating system:
Cache::Memcached
Cache::Memcached::Fast

These perl modules are optional, depending on how you configure:
Net::Server::PreFork

Last, but not least, you need a working PostgreSQL server (>= 8.4 recommended) and a running memcached daemon
(see http://www.danga.com/memcached).

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Rene Schickbauer

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Warning: Maplat includes code and some other stuff from other projects for ease of
development and deployment, some of which may or may not have different open source
licenses. Wherever dual-licensing is used, Maplat uses the license with fewer restriction
to freedom (e.g. Artistic prefered over GPL).

Maplat includes a bunch of other software (for ease of install), these are
mainly jQuery, some jQuery plugins, jQuery.sheet() and the FCKEditor. Some of
these are distributed under other open source licenses, please see the corresponding
files in the tarball for details.

Maplat also includes code and test scripts from Cache::Memcached and DBD::Pg, please have a look
at the corresponding tarballs on CPAN.

When submitting code for the Maplat project, please use Artistic license or similar - restricted
code licensed under GPL will be frowned on.