From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Caffienator Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: , <24569.1005289364@apnic.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:52:58 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1cbb39e4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <24569.1005289364@apnic.net>, "George Michaelson" wrote: > Apache is a bad idea because like mozilla, it carries the leaden weight > of history around inside it. > > It has code inside to do threading. This is presumably irrelevant on > plan9. > > It has code to pre-fork children. ditto. > > It has code to work around Microsoft .DLL strangeness. > > It has its own shared-library runtime load code. > > It has backwards compatibility code for NCSA httpd. > > If you want it because it has HTTP 1.1 conformant implementation, or an > interesting model of how to represent a file directory as web, thats > surely better done discretely? > > If you want a service which understands apache .htaccess formatted data, > that too is surely better written another way? I can understand wanting > to un-tar a tree of web, including .htaccess, even parse an httpd.conf > but to port the daemon.. > > cheers > -George > -- > George Michaelson | APNIC > Email: ggm@apnic.net | PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3367 > 0490 | Australia > Fax: +61 7 3367 0482 | http://www.apnic.net There is the Ada Web Server, which should be trivial to get working on Plan9 once we have an Ada compiler which will target the Plan9 platform. You can find it at http://www.adapower.com Implementing Java through Ada is a piece of cake as well, via JGNAT. Laters. Caffienator chris@dont.spam.me