[tbnl-devel] Re: New version 0.4.0

[Marc Battyani]

 "Bob Hutchison" <hutch at recursive.ca> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Marc Battyani wrote:
> 
> > I would be very interested to add such a front-end to the mod_lisp
> > repository. (Some kind of mod_pure_lisp ;-)
> > Several people (including me) have been interested by the possibility 
> > of
> > having a light-weight stand-alone server compatible with mod_lisp 
> > (mostly
> > for demonstrations or small apps) without all the overhead and 
> > constraints
> > imposed by paserve or areneida. As I posted here some time ago, I used
> > paserve for this but a clean stand-alone HTTP front-end would be nicer.
> 
> Actually, the bits and pieces that are in TBNL's modlisp.lisp file are 
> probably sufficient to be used as a simple stand-alone server (when the 
> last patch I posted is applied, or Edi releases a new version). I think 
> maybe some small refactoring will make things a bit cleaner, but if you 
> are willing to write a standard TBNL handler for the requests it works 
> now (i.e. you don't have to use any of TBNL's facilities other than the 
> dispatcher, which isn't so bad because you'll probably want to dispatch 
> anyway -- and, if you are using TBNL dispatchers the server is going to 
> be pretty clean as it is).

OK I will look at that in the next release.

Marc