Re: What would _you_ like in a Lua CMS?

[Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@...>]

Oops, forgot the attachment. :-)

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Fabio Mascarenhas, Lablua
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2009, at 1:02 PM, steve donovan wrote:
>>
>>> Like Xavante ;) ?
>>
>> Hmmm... well... Xavante, in its current shape at least, is more of an
>> application (i.e. a standalone HTTP server) than a library (i.e. an embedded
>> HTTP engine).
>>
>>
>
> Technically Xavante is a library. :-) I attached a script that
> launchers orbit apps using just Xavante, without the need for the
> whole Kepler stack and configuration.
>
> You are correct that it is not as well-factored as HTTP.lua, but the
> changes to abstract away the I/O to use either files or sockets
> wouldn't be difficult. Repurposing Xavante to use a threading library
> instead of Copas is not hard, either. I did it once to use a
> cooperative threading library that I wrote using Alien and libevent as
> an experiment, and Bruno Silvestre did it to use a m+n threading
> library that he wrote.
>
> I want to rip the guts out of Xavante and make it "speak" WSAPI
> natively instead of its own internal API, and make the front-end more
> modular, too, but I never seem to get around and do it. :-) But it is
> a very stable web server; http://luarocks.org is a Sputnik running
> under Xavante, with Apache proxying to it, and the uptime of Xavante
> is measured in *months*.
>
> --
> Fabio Mascarenhas, Lablua
> http://www.lua.inf.puc-rio.br
>

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