----- Original Message ----- > On 22.06.2011 22:39, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > On Thursday 16 June 2011, Brian McCallister wrote: > >> My personal use cases for mod_lua are not content generation > >> oriented, but you should be able to do content generation with it. > >> I suspect that if you are doing "serious apps" then you will get > >> more mileage from ruby, python, or perl just because there are a > >> lot more libraries geared towards that already. All that said, > >> when i started doing ruby, there were far fewer quality ruby libs > >> than there are lua libs now :-) > > > > IMHO an interesting use case for mod_lua would be all the places > > where > > one can easily plug in additional functions that can then be used > > without further interaction with mod_lua: > > > > - authz providers > > - ap_expr functions / variables > > - additional log formats for CustomLog and ErrorLogFormat > > - rewrite maps > > And maybe custom load balancing strategies for mod_proxy_balancer.
I think these are all fine ideas, but what needs to be done to provide the interfaces? -- I think once we started doing that extending the whole lot to more interfaces will be trivial. We need to start somewhere to show people how it's done. > Rainer i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/
