At 2:00 PM -0700 on 5/16/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Alain : Why limit ourselves to ONCE a day ? Why not update as soon as
>there is something changed ? Both of these options represent the same
>amount of risk.
Anthony: How do you know when something is changed? Or, rather, how does
the mirror?
BTW: This is not much a risk -- it can be done over the web with the webserver.
>
>> Anthony : Of course, Apache & Linux would be
>> better... but, oh well <g>.
>
>Alain : One of my colleagues keeps pestering me about Linux, Apache and
>Perl. He insists that they are the future, and that we should phase out
>our commitment to the MacOS and mac-specific tools. I am not so sure.
Anthony: They're certainly the future of the server market... if they are
not already the server market. Apache servers the majority of the
web.
>For one thing, it would entail a lenghty non-productive re-learning
>phase that I can't personally afford to do for now. Is my colleague
>right ? Is the "Linux, Apache and Perl" trio so hot that they can no
>longer be avoided? How long does it take to port one's Mac experience
>to this new configuration?
I don't think "port" is the right word... I don't think expriance can be ported from
MacOS to Linux.
>Would you be willing to give me a helping
>hand ?
I'll try... but it'd be fairly hard to do over the 'net and I still have not got parts
of it (MkLinux) working (still won't play CD's!)
>> Anthony : ... which is running Linux.
>
>Alain : Is it a Macintosh server ?
Nope. Intel box, I believe.
>
>Alain : Is Linux scriptable when hosted on a Mac ?
Linxu is an operating system. And yes, it is scriptable. That's what Perl, .sh, tcl,
etc. are -- scripting languages (or at least they can be used as such).
>
>> Anthony : Thus, my CGI's are written in Perl or in C[++].
>
>Alain : Could you give me a hand with Perl CGIs, if and when my team
>choses to use Perl instead of AppleScript and HyperCard ?
Yes.
