xavante recipe card

[jrs <jrs@...>]

As a noob at lua but old hand at software I started my experiments with 
xavante, since I thought it'd be fun if the webserver hosting the lua 
reference manual was lua-based.

Using the latest of each of the dependencies led to the errors in 
copas/coxpcall that have been recently reported on the lua list.  

Next, I downloaded versions of the dependencies that had publish dates no 
later than xavante.  I built a little link garden using the visual directory 
structure from the xavante doc page so that I could easily try combinations.

That led quickly to a running xavante using the versions listed next  Other 
combinations may work also, I just haven't tried them.

lua 5.0.2
luafilesystem-1.1
luasocket-2.0-beta3
cgilua-5.0b2
copas-1.0
venv-1.0
xavante-1.1b


The most important bits are probably using compat from cgilua and coxpcall 
from xavante rather than the more recent stand-alone versions.


Here's how the directory ended up.  Confusing for Windows users, I'm sure.  
Sorry. :-)

The symlinks into subdirectories are a consequence of how I formatted LUA_PATH
and could be eliminated with a LUA_PATH that reflected a better understanding 
of the 5.1 package model. :-)


! /u00/jrs/lua/runxavante$ ls -l
total 20
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   29 2005-07-06 21:31 cgilua 
-> ../cgilua-5.0b2/clmain/cgilua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   17 2005-07-06 21:32 cgilua.lua -> cgilua/cgilua.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   23 2005-07-06 20:59 compat 
-> ../cgilua-5.0b2/compat/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   18 2005-07-05 20:12 config.lua -> config_xavante.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 1427 2005-07-04 15:57 config_xavante.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users    9 2005-07-06 20:57 copas -> ../copas/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   15 2005-07-06 21:06 copas.lua -> copas/copas.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   28 2005-07-06 21:13 coxpcall 
-> ../xavante-1.1b/bin/coxpcall
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   21 2005-07-06 21:14 coxpcall.lua -> 
coxpcall/coxpcall.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users    8 2005-07-06 21:47 lua -> /opt/lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users  599 2005-07-06 21:05 runlua_xavante
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   33 2005-07-06 21:15 stable.lua 
-> ../cgilua-5.0b2/clmain/stable.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   12 2005-07-06 20:57 venv-1.0 -> ../venv-1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   20 2005-07-06 21:14 venv.lua -> ../venv-1.0/venv.lua
drwxr-xr-x  4 jrs users 4096 2005-07-04 22:15 web
drwxr-xr-x  2 jrs users 4096 2005-07-06 21:09 xavante
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 1553 2005-07-06 21:05 xavante_start.lua
! /u00/jrs/lua/runxavante$ ls -l xavante
total 32
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 2762 2005-07-06 21:09 cgiluahandler.lua
lrwxrwxrwx  1 jrs users   21 2005-07-05 20:19 config.lua 
-> ../config_xavante.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 1745 2005-07-06 21:09 filehandler.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 7640 2005-07-06 21:09 httpd.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 5530 2005-07-06 21:09 mime.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 1185 2005-07-06 21:09 redirecthandler.lua
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jrs users 2762 2005-07-06 21:09 server.lua


Hopefully this will be of some assistance for the next newcomer to try 
xavante.

--
jrs