On Sunday 21 October 2001 19:46, you wrote:
> Never looked into SourceForge's homepage features. I like to install
> a little CGI script that takes some style sheets and returns some
> text/plain document (a Notation3 document, the script is supposed to be
> an implementation of my meta data proposal for CSS Level 3). Would this
> be possible in general, i.e. does Sourceforge allow us to run CGI
> scripts? Are latest CSS::SAC, Text::Balanced, etc.pp. installed in this
> web space? If not, what about some cron'd script that installs those
> modules on a regular base? At least, can I get someone to install those
> modules in a local module space? I don't trust my PREFIX=...
> capabilities anymore :-)
I haven't looked at SF's CGI features, nor in fact into anything that relates
to how the homepage works. The latest versions are certainly not available by
default, though installing with PREFIX could take care of that (c'mon Bjoern,
you know how to pass an argument ;-).
By default all project members have write-access to the web tree, and I think
we ought to keep it this way. Web hosting is documented in the SF docs
(chapter 5). You can setup cron jobs from your SSH. It also has information
on how to automatically export data from the project to your local website. I
guess it wouldn't be too hard to have a local module space in which we'd put
the latest dependencies (once should be enough, and hey, you can even scp
them there if you don't want to use PREFIX ;-) and have a cron job check
stuff out of cvs into it.
Note that another, perhaps simpler, solution would be to host the site
somewhere else and have our SF homepage redirect there (one can also change
the "Homepage" link of the project). I could host stuff on my server but as a
rule we don't open shell or FTP accounts so I'd be the only one able to write
there. If you send me a ready-to-run website I'll be happy to set up such a
space (eg on http://perl-css.berjon.com/) but I don't have time right now to
maintain a website on a very regular basis. Updates once a week would be fine
though.
So we have a variety of solutions. Pick your favourite and I'll help with
what I can :-)
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