Re: [Vala] mod_vala (was Removal of Mono)

["Michael B. Trausch" <mbt zest trausch us>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Jeremy wrote:
> > Maybe mod_mono (for apache) is an example of the sort of dependency I
> > was thinking of:
> > http://ibbie.xanga.com/686874553/item/
>
>   That would be my blog post. I do still think a "mod_vala" would be a
> *great* idea. Unfortunately, I feel it best to suggest that focusing on
> improving the documentation might be a better goal. Both flavors of
> syntax are great; but anyone coming in, either knowing another language
> or just new to programming, will be discouraged when they can't find the
> answers. After all, it's really difficult to RTFM when there's no
> (finished) FM.  I mean, imagine if you did "man sbrk",  and at "RETURN
> VALUE" it just said "To be completed..." (;

Hrm.  A "mod_vala" might be okay, but it would be necessarily non-portable. 
Why not have a FastCGI library for GObject instead, and then Vala (or C) can 
be used to create applications that use the FastCGI protocol run run behind a 
Web server?

The FastCGI library could be a bare, low-level thing that just implemented the 
protocol, and have a layer that sat on top of it to provide more reasonable 
interface to the proess and make it easy to work with.  That would accomplish 
something along the lines of a mod_vala, but it would not only work with 
Apache, but a fair lot of other Web servers, as well.

        --- Mike