[tbnl-devel] Running TBNL Standalone

[Bob Hutchison]

On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Marc Battyani wrote:

> "Bob Hutchison" <hutch at recursive.ca> wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Edi Weitz wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:10:07 -0500, Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anybody thought of how TBNL might be run without an apache
>>>> server or mod_lisp involved? Why? I've got an application that would
>>>> normally be run on a server, but it would be useful to have a
>>>> standalone demo version. Setting up apache is not the kind of skill
>>>> I'd expect from the end user of this particular application.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that somehow getting Araneida talking to TBNL would
>>>> be one route -- fake mod_lisp in an Araneida handler or replace
>>>> TBNL's modlisp.lisp would be two possibilities.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose aserve and cl-http are also possibilities, but I suspect
>>>> that Araneida has something more to gain from TBNL.
>>>
>>> Sounds like an interesting idea.  I've never done this until now,
>>> though.
>
> I've done this once with paserve. IIRC there was just very few lines to
> write to call the normal mod_lisp handler function.

You mean calling mod_lisp from the lisp server, presumably using an 
FFI? Hadn't thought of that.

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> Marc
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