Re: [Slashcode-general] Can I run slashcode via cgi-bin of an ISP?

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 14:50 -0400 2001.04.20, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >all-perl XML parser.  You can't do it.  You need XML::Parser.  You need to
> >have expat.  You need to build it especially for your OS.  Or you can try
> >to find some other XML parser.
>
>Quite indeed. It's relatively easy to write an XML parser with regexps -

No, it isn't.  It is quite difficult.  XML is Hard to parse.  Now, you
could write something that could parse a _subset_ of XML, without too much
difficulty.  But it would not be an XML parser.


> >And then there is the templating system.  You could try to write your own,
> >but that would take months or years to come up with one that works this
>
>I actually haven't looked into the template-toolkit all that well, but the
>stupid people I work with every day as customers of the ISP wouldn't use
>(or understand) a complex template system (or rather, "a template system
>that would take months or years" to write).

I don't think it would be a problem, really.  Template is easier to use
than HTML (I think).



> >>Maybe that's a goal statement somewhere, but my head runs "100% everyone
> >>everywhere". Slashcode is currently "geeks who have their own servers or
> >>isp's who love their geeks".
> >
> >Nah.  That's like saying Apache is only for geeks.  Yes, the average user
> >cannot set it up.  I don't see why this is a problem, anymore than I can
> >see why the average user not being able to set up Apache is a problem.
>
>I see what you're saying, but it doesn't gel perfectly in my head. The
>average user doesn't run their own webserver because they don't have the
>bandwidth or knowledge about static or dynamic IPs and name resolution. But
>the average user doesn't need to worry about that cos there are kazillions
>of providers out there that already provide web hosting (either per month,
>or free with their access).
>
>There aren't millions of hosters with Slash (or at least, not the same
>million), and if people are looking around for software that duplicates
>what Slash does, they're not going to find many viable/free examples.

True.  But what if there weren't millions of hosters out there with Apache?
Would you still expect that a user should be able to FTP some files to a
directory and run their own web server?  That's the point: I know not
everyone will allow Slash.  But it is a system that makes a lot of
assumptions about what is available -- even though it is very portable --
and you can't take those away easily.


Have a great weekend,

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