Perl might have started out as a text processing language, but why shouldn't it expand into all domains of data processing? One of the challenges of developing event driven applications is tweaking all your libraries to use the same event loop. This is especially difficult when no standand perl event loop exists. I hereby present the Event extension. Event has been in development since April 1998. It is known to build correctly on the following architectures. Most unix architectures should work with minor tweaking. linux 2.2.1 ppc-linux linux 2.2.5-15 i686-linux sunos 4.1.4 sun4-sunos solaris 2.5.1 sun4-solaris solaris 2.6 sun4-solaris solaris 7 i86pc-solaris * Perl 5.005_03 (or better) is required. * Win32 support should not be too difficult but no volunteer has stepped forward to take ownership. * No real additional support is needed or planned for multiple threads. Event has been tested with Insure++. Since there is only really need for a single event loop API, there is tentitive demand for including this extension as part of the main perl distribution. Therefore, I would like to encourage everyone to try it out and send any feedback to the mailing list at perl-loop@perl.org. Thank you very much! Joshua N Pritikin 15 Jul 1999