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

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

That's why Vala would be a boon.

BTW, there already exist such a web server, it's called Midgard:
http://www.midgard-project.org/ it's GObject-based, and I guess plugging
Vala into it would be quite natural.

        Xav

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 01:36 -0700, Christian Hergert wrote:
> It's a cute thought.  But then you would try to debug a segfault or
> memory corruption on a production site.
>
> -- Christian
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Michael B. Trausch<mbt zest trausch us> wrote:
> > 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
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