Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] future directions

[Nick C. <ni...@cl...>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:53:20AM -0000, Barbie wrote:
> 
> Over the next few weeks I'll have a look at some of the FTP clients for
> Windows and try and write some reasonable documentation for them. In the
> meantime it might be worth re-reading any documentation people have written
> and make sure they are Windows novice user friendly.

A novice friendly document on getting started with uploading and running
Perl CGIs would be a good thing to have, certainly.

There needn't be anything NMS specific about it, so if done well it
could provide a useful resource for other Perl/CGI projects to link to.

I wander if someone already has a good one somewhere.

> > When each script is released, 3 different packages will be generated for
> > it, and the end user can choose which they want:
> 
> I like this idea, as that gives the user a bit more control over what they
> do with the script. However, there are two further options. Having recently
> looked at Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/), their download archive
> file includes all the modules that are required by their suite of scripts,
> which you have the option of including in the lib directory under cgi-bin or
> ignoring completely.
> 
> The two additional packages would be the files in (1) together with required
> modules, and the autoinstall (3) including the required modules.

I was thinking that all packages would include all required modules
anyway, since we don't have many CPAN dependencies and those that we do
are things like MIME::Lite which come as a single .pm file.

Currently, the autoinstall CGI installs its copy of MIME/Lite.pm into
the script's lib directory if "eval {require MIME::Lite}" chokes.

> In addition will the autoinstall be only for Linux/UNIX users? As I've
> mentioned above there are Windows users out there, and there should be no
> reason why any of these scripts can't run under ActivePerl. I haven't tried
> out tfmail_ai so apologies if this is already a consideration.

By windows user you mean someone with a windows web server, right ?

The autoinstall CGI tries to be windows server friendly, I've only been able
to test it against IIS4/NT4 though.

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Nick