All you say is true, but remember, the first part that was ever written was the countdown timer, which is SDL based. For this I used pascal because I have been doing graphics programming in it for years and I could do it in a matter of hours.
The reason the files are in /usr/share/netday is a historical curiousity, the netday association had sponsored part of the orriginal developement, I kept the directory mostly as a thank you note. I think the web-page may be out of date. Pascal is not really that curious for web-programming, it has the best string management of any language ever created - something that in my experience makes web-programming easier. Binary flat-file was not chosen for security reasons, it was chosen because A) It is natively supported in pascal. B) It is very fast to develop for C) Why do I need to drag down a system with an SQL server to store literally 3 pieces of data ? Oh and for the record FreePascal supports: Win32 Linux FreeBSD BeOS, MacOS I386 PPC ARM Alpha It is the most portable compiled language since C, not to mention - everything in direqcafe is ANSI pascal compatible. That means turbo-pascal, delphi, or even Gnu PASCAL could compile. The only part that is not limited to ANSI pascal calls it the SDL calls - if you are porting to a platform where there is no PASCAL SDL support, you would need to rewrite that bit - but it is one source file, about 30 lines of code. Pretty easy to port. There is one other thing, you cannot port this to platform without proper multi-user file access support (e.g. win32) it is pretty much unix specific - but that is an OS limitation - I made use of an OS feature to save resources - occasionally that is a worthwhile reason to sacrifice some portability. A.J. On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:25, Mark Ehle wrote: > Take it easy, A.J. - I meant no offense. My comments were not meant as > criticism, but more that pascal is a curious and unusual choice for web > programming. > > I am glad that you made your program available to everybody. > > However, nowhere in the documentation does it mention anything about > what format exactly or where the files are. They are not in /usr/share/. > Mine were here: /usr/share/netday. Is this because of a version > difference? I thought I downloaded 1.5, but the web page says 1.4. > > To me, the term binary-flat-file could be anything. If it were MySQL, > then it would be easier to see what was going on, easier to fix when > things went wrong, and could be just as, if not more, secure. Perl, c, > or PHP would be more portable, and could do the same job. > > Just my $.02 > > Mark > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 02:23, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Because everything else sucks --- just kidding. > > I like and use many languages, and I pick the one best suited to the > > task at hand. > > In this case it was Pascal, I am a contributing member of the FreePascal > > developement team - I would not be if I did not think it was a great > > language (I have a lot of respect for Wirth) > > > > The database's (as it says in the FAQ section of the FM you apparently > > forgot to R) are binary-flat-file - which for the task at hand is the > > only solution that is not an overkilling waste of resources. > > > > Since I am the developer, and you got it for nothing, you can contribute > > if you want -or write your own. I made judgement calls during design, > > and while I am always open to criticism, I think it is rather harsh to > > judge me on the grounds that you dissagree with them. > > Over 4000 people have downloaded DC according to freshmeat, I think that > > speaks for itself. > > > > A.J. > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:32, Mark Ehle wrote: > > > Thanks, Anselm - > > > > > > I did look at /etc/passwd. I don't think that these users came from the > > > system. I think that direqcafe put them in to it's database as I was > > > screwing around with it before I got it working right. It would appear > > > that there is no way to delete them from the web interface. > > > > > > Where is the database file, and in what format? > > > This software looks like a great start, but why in the word did he write > > > it in pascal? Guess that there's one more language I have to learn now! > > > > > > Thanks - > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:24, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > > > Hello Mark, > > > > > > > > > I have a few users that showed up when I was playing with the package > > > > > that are not on my system. They are 55, 1, 15, and 0. How do I get rid > > > > > of these critters? > > > > > > > > Dunno about direqcafe, but that probably are system processes. 0 means > > > > root, 50 might be the user "apache" runs as, "www-data", "http" or > > > > what it is named in your distribution. Look into /etc/passwd to find out > > > > name<->number mappings. Perhaps direqcafe has a "systemusers" config value > > > > that allows to hide all uids below 100, or 500, or so? IIRC most > > > > distributions create new "regular" users with uid >= 500. > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Anselm Martin Hoffmeister > > > > Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > > > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > > > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > > > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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