From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:53:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb.cgi: Customization
Message-ID: <E1G8J22-0001MP-N2@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90608020059w2d4567ve2043f2c7467dea3@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> >"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.
At least if you cannot change the webserver configuration it might be
more complicated to set environment variables.