Commands on server and lack of examples

[Mark Wieder]

On 11/14/19 5:47 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:

> Wow. Even worse than I'd thought.
> 
> LC Server is such a wonderful tool, I feel it could provide a great way 
> to introduce other devs to chunk expressions and more.  But after that 
> experience on a popular shared host that couldn't handle LC's resource 
> usage, I began to feel dismayed by the prospects.
> 
> If we can't find a solution in the engine, at least we have a workaround 
> with a custom font config file. But it's so many extra steps to set that 
> up it rather kills the joy of LC's simplicity.
> 

I forgot to mention libgraphite, which is loaded by default by libharfbuzz.

FWIW, the following 242 font files are checked (open file, read a few 
bytes from start of file, close file) on my linux system for each server 
transaction. This in spite of my executing a simple "hello world" script 
that uses NO fonts:

/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-opensymbol.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
/home/mwieder/.config/fontconfig/conf.d
/home/mwieder/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
/home/mwieder/.config/font-manager/conf.d
/home/mwieder/.config/font-manager/directories.conf
/home/mwieder/.config/font-manager/local.conf
/home/mwieder/.config/font-manager/select.conf
/home/mwieder/.fonts.conf.d
/home/mwieder/.fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf
/etc/fonts/local.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-serif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-serif.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-lohit-devanagari.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-01-tlwg-kinnari.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-02-tlwg-norasi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-10-tlwg-loma.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-11-tlwg-waree.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-13-tlwg-garuda.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-14-tlwg-umpush.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-15-laksaman.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-21-tlwg-typo.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-22-tlwg-typist.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-23-tlwg-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-beng-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-deva-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-gubbi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-gujr-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-guru-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-orya-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-pagul.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-fonts-telu-extra.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-smc-meera.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-smc-rachana.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-takao-pgothic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-khmer.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-wqy-microhei.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-assamese.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-bengali.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-devanagari.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-gujarati.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-gurmukhi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-kannada.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-odia.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-tamil-classical.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-tamil.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/66-lohit-telugu.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-fonts-smc-manjari.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-anjalioldlipi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-chilanka.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-dyuthi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-karumbi.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-keraleeyam.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-raghumalayalamsans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-suruma.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/67-smc-uroob.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-fonts-noto-cjk.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/89-tlwg-garuda-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/89-tlwg-kinnari-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/89-tlwg-laksaman-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/89-tlwg-umpush-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
/usr/share/fonts
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/usr/local/share/fonts
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/home/mwieder/.local/share/fonts
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/usr/share/fonts/X11
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/usr/share/fonts/cMap
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/usr/share/fonts/type1
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/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
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/usr/share/fonts/X11/util
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/var/cache/fontconfig//f1f2465696798768e9653f19e17ccdc8-le64.cache-7
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-gb1
/var/cache/fontconfig//95530828ff6c81d309f8258d8d02a23e-le64.cache-7
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan1
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/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-japan2
/var/cache/fontconfig//e52a45a1c8c8fe895fc0fc8c4e6999b8-le64.cache-7
/usr/share/fonts/cmap/adobe-korea1
/var/cache/fontconfig//188ac73a183f12857f63bb60a4a6d603-le64.cache-7
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/malayalam
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/usr/share/fonts/opentype/mathjax
/var/cache/fontconfig//d0972c3d32f097851eb916381fc38920-le64.cache-7
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto
/var/cache/fontconfig//9b89f8e3dae116d678bbf48e5f21f69b-le64.cache-7
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/var/cache/fontconfig//f6e6e0a5c3d2f6ae0c0c2e0ecd42a997-le64.cache-7
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/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ancient-scripts
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