Project Summary
Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components.
Mason solves the common problems of site development: caching, debugging, templating, maintaining development and production sites, and more.
Mason is 100% free and open source. Although it can be used from CGI or even stand-alone, it is optimally designed for use with two other open source technologies: mod_perl and Apache.
In a Nutshell, Mason...
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 1999
ending with its most recent commit almost 11 years ago
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GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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