Hello,
So far the current APM engine only install the packages "as is".
Please correct me if I'm wrong... (Bernie?)
Suppose there are some settings that should be changed based on
user's personal reference or their system, is there any way to
define an "autoload" script/executable to do this interactively
right after the APM installed?
The script/executable, then will send Arachne to the APM's
"setup wizard" HTML page(s) and process the form result(s) to
alter it's target configuration file(s).
Off course the first method -- system independent script (i.e.
Perl for DOS), is prefered. As it would be less harmless, to
the user's system's health than DOS executables (IMHO).
As for Perl for DOS for example, it's quite easy to pass
Arachne's GET method form's reply to the Perl intepreter, by
using a simple DGI-activated CGI wrapper. The reply, after all,
is just an URL... i.e. file:myscript.pl?foo=off&goo=ugh ;-)
Now how about the POST method? Is it possible to add an option,
so if Arachne is replied to a "file://" POST method form, then
the reply is redirected to a local file?
PS - Perl 4 for DOS interpreter is runable on any PC (even under
Arachne), Perl 5 is 32-bit pmode (compiled with DJGPP), 386
or higher required.
--Eko
http://escribe.com/computing/opdif/
