Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] future directions

[Barbie <ba...@qi...>]

From: "Nick Cleaton" <ni...@cl...>

> 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'll give it a go :)

> I wander if someone already has a good one somewhere.

I was going to look through various help documentation available for FTP
clients and see whether there is a general theme that we can use.

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

sounds like a good way to go.

> > 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 ?

Yep.

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

I would imagine that most Windows servers will be running on NT or Win2k, so
this should be fine. I'll try it on my Win98 box at some point too.

Barbie.