[REBOL] Re: Rebol and New Hybrid Software Model
From: tim-johnsons:web at: 15-Sep-2007 9:56
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Chris Dwyer napsal(a):
> > >> New Hybrid Software Model
> >
> > Perhaps R3 should go this direction?
>
> You should know, that there is some guy at QNX company, who is author of
> that hybrid model for them. That guy lives close to Carl, and they met
> in the summer. Carl told him about his Hybrid model, and now QNX comes
> with that. Coincidence? :-)
>
> > Open source has changed everything and all languages are competing
> > with the likes of PHP and javascript, java et al.
>
> There is many examples of stuff not being open-source and popular, and
> of things being open-source, yet not widespread ....
>
> > I hate talking to my ISP cause I know that as soon as I mention REBOL
> > on their servers, their eyes roll back into their collect heads. I
> > feel I can't use REBOL if there are these issues to overcome.
>
> And I think you are highly exagerrating. I talked to two ISPs here, and
> they had no problems at all. What is more - once you have general CGI
> allowed, you don't need even to mention it to them - just place rebol
> executable into cgi-bin directory itself.
Yikes! Don't do that. Please. There's been a discussion earlier about this
earlier...
Because cgi-bin is "open to the outside world", multiple requests like
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rebol could bring the server down. And now
the ISPs would *really* be rolling their eyes. You could more safely place
it someplace like /home/mydomain/bin.
I belong to a professional organization that is mostly sysadmins for ISPs
and telcos and they are uniformly opposed to this. One of the local ISPs
the I know of - that doesn't belong - *does* allow this and they are
gonna be sorry!
MTCW
Tim