On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> What are the concrete advantages of using this engine over using Metacard to
> >> develop CGI solutions?
> >
> > Not sure I follow this: the only way to do CGI with the full,
> > graphical, version of MetaCard is under MacOS, where CGI is done with
> > AppleEvents.
>
> ??? What was I doing when I used the full graphical version/engine for MC on
> Linux as the CGI engine for Apache? I was sure I got this working -:) In
> other words presuming this wasn't a case of false memory syndrome brought
> about by an over enthusiatic adoption of the incomprehensible power of
> Metacard...
On UNIX it's the same *engine*, it just runs in two different *modes*.
Which it runs in depends on what it finds on the command line when it
starts up, a stack, a .mt script, or nothing. There are two different
Win32 engines, though, because you can't produce a single executable
that does both on Windows. The Darwin engine works just like the
other UNIX engines, though the graphical mode will only work if you
install and run an X server first. The Carbon engine only supports
the graphical mode. So the situation on Mac OS X will be similar to
Windows (you'll use one of two different engines depending on what you
need to do).
> How does the MC/Linux/Apache solution differ from the console version CGI
> solutions performance/implementation wise?
These are the same thing. The only other way to do it is with
mchttpd, which will run scripts (CGIs) faster but serve image and text
files slower. There is no MetaCard equivalent of something like
"mod_perl" where the language interpreter is actually loaded into the
address space of the HTTP server, which kind of gets you the best of
both worlds. It'd be pretty straightforward to build something like
that (much easier than a WWW browser plugin, for one), but since we
don't know of anyone that's run into a performance problem in this
area yet, we haven't scheduled building anything like that.
Regards,
Scott
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