Re: Fwd: Re: "Integrated Web Client for git" GSoC proposal

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2010, 12:53 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <p2ue72faaa81004170022q2fc3a490u83ad6e325b91e139@mail.gmail.com>

Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com> writes:

> We need to keep gitweb dependancies as less as possible. So, using
> frameworks will be a bad idea, as everybody might don't want to use
> them.

Well, hopefully in the future PSGI / Plack would be as widely available as CGI.pm is currently...

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> 
> Coming to splitting of gitweb, as Jakub said installing a split web
> script would be a problem, but we can have a solution the problem by
> using proper algorithms. First, we parse the URL and get to know which
> function to be implemented and then we include the necessary file and
> call the function which will then execute and return the proper HTML
> output.
> 
> This way, we can no longer worry about installing the split webscript.
> All we need is to install the basic gitweb.pl file which does all this
> basic parsing and calling other perl files. The other files just
> needed to be in the path.

Not a solution, I think. If you could munge PATH for web server [user], you could munge PERL5LIB and use locally (local::lib) installed packages.

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Jakub Narebski
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