On Wed, 28 May 2003, James A Baker wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 22:39 US/Central, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > James A Baker writes:
> >
> >> Is there a decent, and hopefully easy to work with, ACAP
> >> implementation out there anywhere? I tried one some time ago, but it
> >> was a pain to get working, and I gave up.
> >
> > ACAP is dying. Now you know why.
> >
> > It's mostly dead, actually. They're only searching for someone to
> > give it last rites.
> >
>
> Hehe! "Last rites." Good one.
>
> Yeah, I know... But I just keep hoping some great software surgeons (or
> tele-evangelists??) will manage to resurrect it. It's a really great
> *idea* that just never got any support.
That's why I posted the link to Dave Cridland's site. It seems to
me that, if anyone's going to resurrect it, it's going to be him. He's
the only one currently maintaining his implementation, and, as he says:
-------------------------
This release contains numerous bugs, no doubt, and moreover:
- A DUMP command is linked in by default that ignores ACLs.
- It currently runs non-chrooted, as root. How scary is that?
- The "ACAP super user" is hard coded.
- Large elephants lurk in secluded corners of the source code.
If you wanted a fully complete, highly stable, highly secure ACAP server,
and won't settle for anything less, then I have to tell you there isn't
one.
If you want an almost complete, fairly stable, hopelessly insecure ACAP
server, primarily for testing client applications against, then you've
come to the right place.
-------------------------
Obviously not quite enterprise-ready, yet, but it could be useful.
If we can just get ACAP support into a few clients, and Dave keeps working
on his server, ACAP could still be a goer. That's why I'm wanting to do
the Mozilla support (if no-one gets there first; and unfortunately my time
is limited). Naturally, if someone else wants to beat me to the Mozilla
one, e-mail me, and I'll send you some links to what I've found that might
be useful.
:)
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