Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and Hosts

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com> writes:

> Well, at the risk of being a traitor, I'm going to suggest that the 
> MacOS is a workstation OS, not a server OS.

At the risk of contradicting David, I'm going to suggest that the MacOS 
is a FINE server OS, just not for Perl CGIs, alas.

Then, just to complicate matters, I'm going to AGREE, and say that if you 
need or want to run Perl CGI's go for a Unix server.  You can still 
develop under MacPerl (which I'd suggest doing at any rate).

For a Mac-based service, you'll probably find almost all of them don't 
allow Perl CGIs (MacPerl is not threaded, and thus Perl CGIs tie up the 
server while they run).  The (expensive) way around this is to find a 
service that does "co-location", buy your own server, and host it with 
them.  Then you can do whatever you like. (ditto for using a Unix box, 
for which there are even more co-location services).

Personally, I use Webstar and NetCloak Pro for most of my server-side 
needs (with Filemaker Pro and Lasso taking up what little slack is left). 
 MacPerl gets reserved for back-end tasks not placed on the server (page 
generation, complicated search/replace functions, basically anything I 
can't do directly in BBEdit gets done in MacPerl).

We need to get people away from the mistaken notion that CGI is the 
be-all and end-all of Perl anyway.

--B



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