Re: Suggestion for Gunnar

[Alan Glover <gcircle@chorazin.org.uk>]

 > At 18:55 31-12-2000 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
 > >
 > >CGR Online wrote:
 > >>
 > >> Here's an Idea. Weather it's a good one or not is not the case
 > >> (thank goodness). Having two distrobutions. One for .pl users and
 > >> one for .cgi users. Just an thought.
 > >
 > >Don't agree. I have struggled to avoid multiple distributions.
 >
 > How about this as an alternative (though it involves a bit of PERL coding
 > for someone).
 >
 > There are basically two variables for everyone; one is the PERL location,
 > for which there are probably four or five standard choices at most, and the
 > other is the filename suffix .cgi or .pl - everything else is configured by
 > the user in the .pm file.
 >
 > Only one set of code is put on the server. However when people come to
 > download it, they select the customisations they need, and then get to
 > download the version they want customised from the master version.
 >
 > How would the CGI program work? When choices were made, it would derive a
 > directory name from the combination of choices so that all the variants are
 > kept separate then it would copy the files across and make the changes for
 > that version (and could indeed tar and compress/zip them). The script could
 > be made smarter by having it check whether the version already in that
 > directory is current (though this mean version numbers should always change
 > for any code change so that the script could do it by version numbers 
alone).
 >
 > Would this address your concern about multiple distributions?
 >
 > Alan