Re: [9fans] plan9 httpd/pegasus on unix?

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* John Barham <jbarham@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you just want to serve static content on Unix/FreeBSD, Dan
> Bernstein's HTTP server in his publicfile package
> (http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html) is one option.  Considering his
> reputation for writing secure software it's probably as good a choice
> as any.

Beware: this reputation is limited to "secure" - installing and
maintenance of DJB-packages is really ugly ! (actally, I wouldn't
cause this stuff "packages", but collections of code fragments).

Did you ever try to building qmail ?
For some customer, I had to get it built in our automated image
builder (which does evrything from scratch wit an sysroot'ed
cross-toolchain). Required me to completely rewrite all makefiles.

If such things happen in beta versions, okay. But I never would
call some package "stable" as long as it doesn't build cleanly
out-of-th-box ;-O


BTW: if you're looking for an lightweight httpd for *nix
platforms, you might consider lighttpd.


cu
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