[Metacard] Re: CGI under OS X via Darwin Success...

[Geoff Canyon]

At 4:24 PM -0500 11/24/01, Richard MacLemale wrote:
>This unlocks the candy store for me.  One thought goes through my mind,
>though... Suppose an individual were to download the darwin engine, and the
>home and tools stacks... And suppose they install them and write some neato
>mt scripts for their OS X based web site.  Scott says that the script limit
>does not apply to the Darwin engine when running in non-GUI mode.  Doesn't
>this mean that anyone who wanted to could do CGI stuff with MetaCard for
>free?  If this is intentional, then it should be, well, advertised.  Maybe
>as a way of getting some UNIX or Mac OS X people in the door.  MetaTalk is a
>kabillion times easier to learn than Perl...

It does mean that people can write CGI in MC for free. It is intentional. Let the games begin!

regards,

Geoff