Re: [Blosxom-devel] Forking of Blosxom 3 or Riding a dead horse?

[Axel B. <ab...@de...>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:58:50PM +0200, Lilo von Hanffstengel wrote:
> is Blosxom 3 dead?

AFAIK it never lived for long neither came far.

> Blosxom 2 as CGI does not run very fast with many plugins.

Yep.

> And is missing mod_perl and fastCGI support and some API.

Yep. It's impossible with the current design to use anything with
persistent data.

> I'm thinking about forking to get a modern Blosxom and reanimating
> stalling development. :(

I'd be happy to see a a working Blosxom within mod_perl (preferably)
or FastCGI. I though don't see currently how we could keep Blosxom's
elegant design while moving to some persistent process model. So if
anyone else find's a way... :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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