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

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

At 16:43 -0500 2001.04.20, Joel Kleppinger wrote:
>Consider this the long way of saying, "You guys make a great product,
>however, you have little foundation to stand on when someone complains
>about it being difficult to install."  While it might be nice to have a CD

If you don't already have mod_php compiled in to Apache properly, and don't
already have the database server installed, then the PHP projects will be
"difficult" too.


>Even though I don't know much perl, I believe that what is holding slash
>back from being easier to install is the fact that perl just doesn't come
>with all of those modules installed.

Nope.  Many of the things required here would be additional modules or code
for PHP, too!  The same reasons why you  -- and pretty much everyone --
admits that Slash is so much more powerful than PHP* are the same reasons
why we have external modules required.

We could go the other way, I suppose: reimplement all the code ourselves.
But that is extraordinarily unproductive use of our time.  And we could
bundle it all together, but that can be done by ANYONE.  I have heard many
people say they don't want to install extra modules, and we always say
"someone just needs to make a distribution that already has everything
needed in it," and people expect us to do that, but no one else seems to
think it is worth doing themselves.

I don't really mind that no one is doing it; but I see no room for
complaint that it doesn't exist.  This is an open source project.  The code
is all there.  If there is enough interest in an all-in-one distribution,
then I don't see why no one is doing it.  The only thing I can figure is
that there really isn't that much interest (or that someone is doing it,
but I just don't know about it :-).

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