Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Also, what would you suggest as a small scripting language to be used
in this kind of platform for implementing CGI scripts (and preferably
able to use sockets/select) ?
The various perl/python/php and friend are in the 10MB range once you
pick up a little bit of libraries (sockets etc) and the tangle of
modules they require; awk (which is present in busybox) is ok-ish for
some things, but doing I/O and calling external programs with it is
> very unfriendly;
I've not tried to do this myself (had no need), but Python does support
having its standard library code in a ZIP archive. The .py (source)
files can be omitted, so the ZIP archive only needs to contain the byte
compiled files (.pyc, and .pyo if you ever use Python's -O option).
With a stripped interpreter, I'd estimate you might get an install
down to ~6MB, with non-essentials (for an embedded production
environment) removed. But you do have to work at it... :-(
I hear Lua is compact and capable, including sockets support, but have
never looked at it.
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