Re: [naviserver-devel] ns as loadable extension

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Jeff Rogers <dv...@di...> wrote:
> Andrew Piskorski wrote:
>> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:05:13PM +0200, Vasiljevic Zoran wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody have any interest in making us being a
>>> yet-another Tcl loadable extension?
>>
>> Yes.  From his past comments on the AOLserver list, Jeff Hobbs would
>> probably be interested too.
>
> Rather than the entire server being a loadable extension, what about
> breaking out the major c-coded functional pieces into a group of
> loadable extensions?  The modules could include adp (a fast/extensible
> template engine), urlspace (a trie oriented around urls), driver (a
> threaded alternate to the standard tcl event loop, oriented around
> creating events on one thread to be dispatched on others), and of
> course, db for database access.


It wouldn't be too hard to enable nsdbi as a Tcl package. It can
already change config settings at runtime. It just needs to be taught
to use those commands to load it's initial config when first loaded,
and a couple of other bits and pieces.