Re: [PATCH] gitweb.cgi: Customization

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2006, 07:59 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90608020059w2d4567ve2043f2c7467dea3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wrzwpg5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 8/2/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm a bit lost as to gitweb config. Are we not relying on %ENV for
> > this stuff?
>
> It is Ok to use %ENV as an alternative way, but I'd rather not
> make it the _only_ way for basic configuration.  Not everybody
> runs Apache.

Ho-hum. And are those other webservers limited in their ENV-setting-fu? ;-)

I always thought that any webserver implementing CGI had reasonable means of ENV manipulation, as that's the main mechanism for the webserver to "configure" the CGI program.

But I'm definitely old-style and out-of-fashion in this.

martin