command-line/CGI Revolution engine questions

Pierre Sahores psahores at easynet.fr
Tue Sep 2 04:20:00 EDT 2003


Le mar 02/09/2003 à 06:49, Alex Rice a écrit :
> On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 03:05  PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
> 
> > All the metatalk/transcript syntax works, except "idle" and, of course,
> > the display and graphical dedicated functions/commands.

I'm not sure i was clear enough about this point : as long as the cgi
engine is only dedicated to get the STDIN port input as a sequence of
parameters, to do them parsed by the cgi script handlers and to send the
result back to the STDOUT port, the work is limited to calculations,
without care about how the output reply will be handled and parsed by
the client-side app (webbrowser -> html, RR or whatever propretary
front-end -> plain text).

> If the command-line engine requires X11 libraries, which it apparently 
> does, then why wouldn't display and graphical functions work?

Even if they are available, they are mostly unused in the STDIN to
STDOUT paradigm, even if it can probably be found exceptions.

> I can see why "idle" and other top-level event-related things would 
> differ.
> 
> Is command-line and CGI usage of the Rev engine documented somewhere?

Mostly not, even if some starter points are available on both the RunRev
and Metacard sites. Hope this will be covered by Dan's books ;-)

> Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
> 
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