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

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

At 11:02 -0500 2001.04.23, Joel Kleppinger wrote:
>Curiously, how many CGI programs are there?  thousands?  hundreds of
>thousands?  How many programs require the mod_perl compilation options?

Thanks for proving my point.  More people would complain if the bad
configuration broke something popular.  But just because the bad
configuration affects something unpopular ... so?  That is not a reflection
on Slash or mod_perl.  It is, nevertheless, a reflection on poorly
configured systems.


>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.

No, it would take me a lot longer, since I don't have mod_php installed
already, just like a lot of bad Apache builds don't have a good mod_perl
configuration.

Hm, since I don't have PHP installed, so Slash installation is much faster,
does that mean the Slash installation is actually BETTER than a PHP*
program's installation is?  I think so.

I am not sure why this is difficult to see.  Yes, a lot of Apache/mod_perl
configs are messed up and don't work out of the box with Slash.  And yes,
most people I know don't even have PHP installed and can use Slash out of
the box with their configuration.  Each is easier for some than for others.

And I have nothing against trying to make it work better with these poorly
configured mod_perl installations.  But someone else needs to do the work
of figuring out what needs to be changed, because I don't have the
available time.

-- 
Chris Nandor                      pu...@po...    http://pudge.net/
Open Source Development Network    pu...@os...     http://osdn.com/