Hi Tavis

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Tavis Rudd wrote:
> On July 12, 2002 06:01 am, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> > I just uploaded
> > http://www.sschwarzer.net/download/webware_port-0.2.tar.gz
> >
> > If you don't see any more problems I would like to send the port
> > to the FreeBSD maintainers.
> >
> > Changes wrt webware_port-0.1:
> >
> > - /usr/local/Webware has become /usr/local/share/webware
>
> Packages like Emacs and MoinMoin uses /usr/local/share, but many of those
> Webware files are Python libraries and almost belong in
> /usr/local/lib/Webware.

IMHO, in that case they even belong in the site-packages directory of
Python, don't they? I would have installed most of Webware there, but
didn't like to also learn distutils at this stage. ;-)

> It could go either way.  As the docs are in there as
> well I think /usr/local/share is most appropriate at this stage.

Ok :)

> > - /usr/local/www/webkit has permissions root:wheel; Cache,
> >   ErrorMsgs, Logs, Sessions have permissions webkit:webkit
>
> Ideally, the config files would be stored in /usr/local/etc/webkit, but that
> would require changes to WebKit code.  It's something to consider for the
> future.

Yes, good idea.

> Does the user 'webkit' have a home dir?  It's sometimes necessary to use a
> .profile file to manipulate that user's environment before launching WebKit.

The webkit user's home dir is /usr/local/www/webkit .

> > # - Patch so that logging goes to /var/log/webkit for default workdir
> > #   -> I won't do this because there are still "global" settings in the
> > #   files in ${WEBWARE_MASTER_DIR}. Changing them would prohibit other
> > #   AppWorkDirs with different log locations.
>
> It might be best to leave this for a change to WebKit proper that provides
> more flexibility in where the various directories are.
>
> > # - Install mod_webkit if Apache is installed (see ports for PHP, mod_python
> > #   and mod_auth_pgsql)
> > #   -> This should be left to another port, mod_webkit, in order to avoid
> > #   dynamic dependencies and packaging lists, depending on whether mod_webkit
> > #   should be installed or not. (Not everyone who uses Webware will like
> > #   to be forced to also install Apache!)
>
> That would be very nice!

I'll work on it.

Stefan



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