At 15:10 13/03/2001, you wrote:
>* 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
My opinion is that the only way this project could work is if the scripts
worked on _any_ web server on _any_ platform with _no_ extra modules. Matt
Wright can achieve that and we're all much cleverer than he is, so we
should be able to do it too.
>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
An interesting project, but IMHO it's a completely different one.
Dave...
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