Re: FastCGI and Tcl 7.5
Stanley Gambarin (gambarin@openmarket.com)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:52:48 -0400
Message-Id: <199610252052.QAA23911@u4-138.openmarket.com>
To: Tom Wood <tom.wood@freegate.net>
Subject: Re: FastCGI and Tcl 7.5
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:06:39 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:52:48 -0400
From: Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@openmarket.com>
> The FCGI development kit I grabbed recently appears to include support for Tcl 7.4 ... will this support work for
> Tcl 7.5? (I am guessing not.) Is it possible to use FCGI with Tcl 7.5?
We have not tested any FastCGI applications with Tcl7.5.
> On a related topic, I would love to see the Tcl support packaged as dynamically loaded extension which would
> not require recompiling the whole Tcl interpreter. I realize that this would mean a change or addition to the
> Tcl "binding", since one would lose the stdio chicanery. But I would be very happy with code that looked like
> this:
>
> while { [ FCGI_Accept] >= 0 } {
> set inChannel [ FCGI_Stdin ]
> set outChannel [ FCGI_Stdout ]
>
> puts $outChannel "Content-type: text/html"
> # etc, etc
> }
>
> if it meant I could use a "stock" Tcl interpreter (since I want to use other Tcl extensions in addition to FastCGI!)
>
> The channel support in Tcl 7.5 seems ideal (to my untrained eye) for this situation.
> -Tom Wood
>
There are no plans to provide support for Tcl 7.5. It is true that
using a dynamic externsion would prevent the recompilation of the interpreter
and we would welcome any outside attempt at porting FastCGI to Tcl 7.5
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