From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:31 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670904160918w4f468ed0oc69162621fd266e4@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] web server Topicbox-Message-UUID: dcdd702a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/4/16 Rudolf Sykora : > Hello, > > I've been wondering (and not reading much)... > If I'd like to use plan9 as a www server, is there anything ready? Yes, there is a pre-built httpd and libraries for writing your own. Recent apache probably doesn't compile in APE (but maybe it does). > How difficult would it be to use rails or merb in plan9? Is it feasible? Very difficult. No, not feasible. You would have to port Ruby. And then possibly rails, too. Plan 9 isn't UNIX, or UNIX-like, or POSIX (or POSIX-like). APE helps with some stuff, but not all the way. > thanks > ruda --dho