On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:31:44PM -0700, Don Baccus wrote: > >> (contrary to an opinion stated in a previous post, the request >> processor implementation is efficient, and isn't an indication that >> the implementer didn't understand AOLserver,
> I don't recall the > details I don't doubt this in the least ... > > Clearly OpenACS didn't need any other special AOLserver filters so it > was reasonable to do its request processor the way it still works > today, rather than something more general which might look better from > an AOLserver-centric rather than OpenACS-centric point of view. You know, I'm involved with people doing RAILS work today, and I don't recall anyone making the argument that the platform should be more Apache-oriented rather than RAILS oriented, etc. Same with, say, Django or other web application platforms. > > My point here was merely that I'm fairly sure that whoever implemented > the ACS/OpenACS request processor approached the problem very much > from the point of view of, "AOLserver is just a tool to implement > OpenACS; what's one good way to make it do what I want for OpenACS?" Ahh ... your point was that whoever did the work at aD was a good software engineer, an excellent one, a point you didn't make particularly clear in your first post. Well, I agree. Whoever wrote that code did a good job. > Nothing wrong with that at all, but it has different implications > than, "I use this AOLserver tool in a lot of different environments, > what seems to be the best way I can have it support what one of those > environments, OpenACS, needs?" arsDigita (which I was never associated with, and was never paid a dime from, and which pretty much hated me) was right to make this decision the way they did. ---- Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[email protected]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
