Edward Z. Yang wrote:
Excerpts from Adam Chlipala's message of Sun May 06 12:43:43 -0400 2012:
And where will the static files go? You want the rule to be that some
URI prefixes are for static files, and everything else belongs to the app?
That works. Alternatively, you can setup a rule where Apache serves up
a path if a corresponding file exists on the filesystem, and doesn't
otherwise.
I like the idea of applications getting their own prefixes of the URI
space, but perhaps I'm fighting against the tide here. I'll wait and
see if anyone else complains. :)
You might want to add a note in the -protocol fastcgi section of the
manual, because I only discovered the prefix directive when I went to
read about static.
Done. (I did suggest it on the mailing list in response to your initial
question. ;])
There are also the wishlist
items about easier deployment including static files, and I'd still love
to read some suggestions on that subject. As far as I understand,
Ur/Web isn't any worse off there than mainstream frameworks, and it
seems plausible to me that some deployment system can be built as an
external tool. For instance, I use Autoconf for that purpose in one
closed-source project, where a .ur file is written containing the needed
information on URL generation.
I thought you might suggest something like that. :-) My
perspective on this issue has always been something like
autoconf is worth it when you have to deal with the arcana
of compiling C programs on a variety of different platforms,
and *so not worth it* if all you need to do is string interpolation.
I'm not trying to argue that Autoconf is the best tool for this job.
Instead, it's more like I'm trying to say that even such a basic, clunky
tool gets the job done, and so it ought to be possible to build a nicer
tool with a standard deployment format, probably even such that the tool
easily supports multiple programming languages. Is anything like that
out there now?
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