On 23.04.2013 23:49, Guenter Knauf wrote:
Hi Daniel,
On 20.04.2013 08:58, Daniel Gruno wrote:
Thanks for the invaluable help, it's really good knowing there's someone
else taking such an interest in this project! :) I hope that someday we
can shed mod_lua of its experimental status and people won't think me a
crazy person for recommending it left and right ;)
naa, I find the module useful too for all sorts of smaller tasks as well
as special httpd things which otherwise can only be done with a C module
I believe ...
now since I looked a bit at the code here and there I think there are
some things which we should fix over the next months ...
1) the code formatting is not yet at our standard
2) the 'apache2' module does pollute the global table, and at 1st glance
with my limited Lua experience I dont see why this happens; I've tested
with other dynamically loaded modules like geoip, socket and apr (yeah,
there exists a *very* *great* APR binding! [1]), and they all only
create their own table and nothing global; it would be nice if we could
either teach the apache2 module to behave same, or at least make it
prelinked/preloaded and let it only plug in when enabled via 'require'.
See attached script which shows what I mean ...
3) Since there exists a well done and well functioning APR binding we
should probably consider to add some code to mod_lua so that its
possible to prelink/preload this APR binding once at module start
instead of loading it from every script again and again ...
if we would agree on that we could even ditch a bunch of the recent APR
adds, thus making mod_lua itself cleaner / smaller again + we would get
almost the full power of APR into mod_lua ...
Gün.
[1] http://peterodding.com/code/lua/apr/
and two more things:
1) I found with my script that there is also a table apr_table created
with methods get and set but its not yet documented
2) I wonder why we do export some functions from mod_lua, and what could
make use of these?
But then again this is only a Lua newbie question, and I dont know
enough about the load process of mod_lua specially on Windows with its
external dependency to the Lua DLL and how this exactly works, probably
these exports are needed for Windows?
Gün.
