Hi Stuart,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stuart P. Bentley
<[email protected]> wrote:
> First off, I'd like to say that the new Kepler Project main page is a VAST
> improvement over the old one.

Nice to know, thanks! :o)

> I was wondering, how can I set up Kepler on DreamHost shared hosting?
>  http://www.keplerproject.org/en/Kepler_on_Shared_Hosting seems to be
> somewhat outdated. I'm looking for some sort of FCGI solution (as that's
> what DreamHost uses for its PHP setup).

(will leave this one for someone who uses DH)

> Also, what is CGILua exactly? Judging by the name and what I can decipher of
> the description, it sounds like a CGI WSAPI connector, which WSAPI seems to
> provide anyway.

CGILua was the first use of Lua for web development, back in 1996. By
then it was a bind of CGI therefore the name. As the Kepler project
started evolving first SAPI then WSAPI based solutions, the CGILua
style (PHP like page generation) got less and less attention.

CGILua is not tied to CGI anymore (since it now uses WSAPI), but the
name remained. This surely didn't help much on the communication
side...

> Also, why does the main page say that CGILua is no longer supported if it
> was just updated a little over a week ago?

The changes have been mostly adaptations to changes in WSAPI (which is
below SAPI, used by CGILua). While some still like the CGILua PHP like
style, there is no one directly involved with the development of
improvements for CGILua.

Fabio and I have been working on a intermediary level (to sit between
WSAPI and modules like Orbit or CGILua) that will absorb part of the
current code duplication on those modules, so CGILua could eventually
be refactored into a simpler module.

So we are looking for voluntaries to continue the evolution of the
currently non maintained modules. :o)

André

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