* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49
> Subject: Re: Strange Request
>
>
> > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I think this is a good idea and would be happy to get involved. What I'd
> > > like to see is a series of "drop in" replacements for Matt's scripts.
> There
> > > are <counts> 15 scripts on Matt's site. How long would it take us to
> > > rewrite them all?
> >
> > I've done his "random text CGI" thingy as a mod_perl/TT drop-in.
>
> I haven't looked at Matts scripts, but I get the feeling that they are aimed
> at beginners who have a fairly standard perl/apache installation[1]. I'm
> sure your solution will be much better, but I don't think it would be a
> replacement for Matt's if the users can't run it...
>
if this project ever did get moving, you'd want to measure each
script against categories such as ..
Runs on Win32
Runs on Linux
Runs on Solaris
Runs on any web server
or Runs only on apache
Requires the following modules ....
blah
blah
and here we get back to the ROPE project as discussed before, where we
could do a standard distribution of Apache/Mod Perl/Perl/Perl modules,
with TT, XML::*, etc.,etc. already there
--
Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
