Bug#493645: nostromo vs boa?

2008-08-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Please note that the source tarball is tainted by both CVS directories > and binaries, and thus likely needs to be repackaged for > DFSG-cleanliness. while i agree that having cvs meta data in a tarball is ugly and should be avoided when doing the checkout to produce th

Bug#493645: nostromo vs boa?

2008-08-04 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:33:22AM +0100, Kai Hendry wrote: > Boa's code looks quite good. Boa being alike nostromo in being select > driven as opposed to fork. Select driven is especially important for > devices with low resources as forks are expensive. [...] I'm a bit familiar with boa, using i

Bug#493645: nostromo vs boa?

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Hendry
First I somehow missed boa. :) A friend asked me to package nostromo, so I just did it and announced the ITP just in case someone was interested. I might not upload it to Debian. Anyway, boa has two problems after a quick look at the source. It's 7k SLOC is twice that of nostromo. Also it has not

Bug#493645: nostromo vs boa?

2008-08-04 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Kai! Regarding your intent to package nostromo... I see your point in the gap between thttpd and lighttpd, but could you please summarize why you would choose it over something like boa? What are the main differences and why would you choose one over the other? From a quick look at the descr