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

[Joel K. <jkl...@ea...>]

It was written:
> >I know nothing I say or do will
> >change that because I understand the reasons for it.  But don't shrug off
> >recompilations by saying "well everyone has to do it."
>
>I don't understand why not.  If your Apache web server were compiled
>without CGI access, wouldn't you turn around and say, well, it should have
>been?  That's what I am saying here.

Curiously, how many CGI programs are there?  thousands?  hundreds of 
thousands?  How many programs require the mod_perl compilation options?  one?
Last I checked, 90% of the people running shared hosts either A) weren't 
geniuses or B) were and charged an arm, a leg, and half your non-tech stock 
portfolio to do anything.  So if it isn't in the distribution, it probably 
isn't on the host.

Oh, and I was accounting for more of the general audience in estimating 20 
minutes installation of a PHP weblog (however poor the coding of that log 
may be).  I would expect (hope) that you could do it in 5 or less.

Joel