Nobody can argue that better isn't better. There are certain things which seem difficult in AOLserver, maybe more difficult than they should be, but maybe not.
One is writing a new C module. I've done some where I use a shared .so module for the interesting library code, and I think I have used a static .la (or whatever it is) file. The difficulty seems to be in using the Tcl C API to make a place to store application data, like handle pointers, etc. Maybe this is just as hard in Apache? Being able to more easily reuse existing C libraries would provide a long term benefit. Maybe this would be easier with ns_proxy and a single threaded/isolated process. Another issue related to C modules is that you can load libnsd into a tcl interp, or just run nstclsh. But you can't load modules, or at least I don't know how to do it. It would probably take a lot of work to get nsd to run as a server inside a tclsh, but what about being able to run nsd with no servers, maybe with Tk as the face of the process, maybe a new main function called nstk. Seems complicated to do, maybe just a module needs to be written that could startup a Tk thread? Being able to use the database and scheduling APIs in a desktop application would be an intesting new area for the AOLserver codebase. Maybe there is something already in this area with Tcl/Postgres/Oracle/etc? tom jackson On Thursday 09 August 2007 11:28, Daniël Mantione wrote: > Besides this, AOLserver needs to get better in replacing Apache as the > primary web server on a system, and this means getting multi-user > capabilities itself. Depending on the way it is done, it can be low > hanging fruit too. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
