On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:05 -0400, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > it's your system so only you know if you really need python > > > > I was hoping to do the web interface with python. I knew there was going to be > a penalty, I hadn't expected it to be so bad. I would like to stay under 16MB > for the root ramdisk, but it looks like it's damn near impossible with > python. > > Time to look for alternatives.
Ruby on rails is like 10MB on my hardened embedded system. PHP with almost no use-flags turned on takes 3.6MB. Lua is even smaller. 700KB. There is a lua web framework called Kepler that should be pretty small. Its not in portage yet (and build scripts are ugly) Lua makes it also pretty good on the Computer Language Shootout: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/lua.php If you want to make it really small you can look at haserl. It's embedded shell. http://haserl.sourceforge.net -- Natanael Copa -- [email protected] mailing list
