Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-29 Thread Maurizio Martignano
stack" point of view. Here I end, Maurizio -Original Message- From: Gustaf Neumann [mailto:neum...@wu.ac.at] Sent: 29 September 2012 14:31 To: aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support Maurizio, the mentioned thread in the OpenACS forum is about

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-29 Thread Gustaf Neumann
Maurizio, the mentioned thread in the OpenACS forum is about speed, not functionality. The issue came up for large sites when postgres changed the rules for their optimizer. I would think that most OpenACS sites work fine with current pg versions. The 9.* support is in OpenACS CVS since July las

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-29 Thread Gustaf Neumann
Jeff, i fully agree with you that this would be the right direction and a win-win situation for both communities. This would be however not only a question of "turning the build setup", but a substantial amount of rewriting of e.g. the i/o and threading layers. A few years ago i have looked a l

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-29 Thread Maurizio Martignano
support the latest versions of PostgreSQL. I hope to have been clearer this time. Maurizio == -Original Message- From: Gustaf Neumann [mailto:neum...@wu.ac.at] Sent: 29 September 2012 12:54 To: aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-29 Thread Gustaf Neumann
ginal Message- > > > From: Jeff Hobbs [mailto:je...@activestate.com] > Sent: 29 September 2012 02:53 > To: aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support > > It is likely quite possible to turn things around and have AOLServer be a > set of extensions

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-28 Thread Maurizio Martignano
t: Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support It is likely quite possible to turn things around and have AOLServer be a set of extensions that load into a standard tclsh. The state of extensions is pretty open, and again if more of the Tcl standard code can be leveraged (socket handling, threading, etc.), this would

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-28 Thread Jeff Hobbs
It is likely quite possible to turn things around and have AOLServer be a set of extensions that load into a standard tclsh. The state of extensions is pretty open, and again if more of the Tcl standard code can be leveraged (socket handling, threading, etc.), this would be a good thing. Afte

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-27 Thread jgdavidson
How about making AolServer nothing more than a TEA-compliant extension? Maybe we could create an "ns_main" command that created a thread that did all the AolServer stuff (i.e., listen on sockets, create connection pools, etc. etc.) and just run it in tclsh. I never looked at TEA close enoug

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Rogers
Maurizio Martignano wrote: > Dear all, > I do not think that removing Windows specific code is a good idea. Hi Maurizio, You make a good argument for keeping windows support. There is a cost of some added complexity, but I don't think that's unreasonable. The biggest challenges are keepi

Re: [AOLSERVER] Windows Support

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Hobbs
On 2012-09-27, at 1:56 AM, Maurizio Martignano wrote: > So what are the feasible options? > I believe there are only two (well three) options: > 1. we maintain the Windows code inside Aolserver (I favour this) > 2. we compile Unix only code via the SUA SDK > 3. we forget about Windows and we use