Araneida web server now works on Win32
Friday, October 8, 2004
I
previously mentioned that it is now possible to run the
Elephant object database on Win32 and indicated that it would be
nice if someone would port
Araneida (a CL web server written by
Daniel Barlow) to Win32 as well. At the time I posted my comments, I was under the
impression that Araneida was supported on
SBCL only.
Shortly after I posted my comment,
Brian Mastenbrook sent me an email
indicating that he had been working on porting Araneida to multiple
CL implementations. Although he had been
porting to those implementations on Linux, he speculated that the
Allegro CL
port might also work under Win32. I decided to give it a try and was
pleasantly surprised when Araneida built and ran the simple
doc/examples.lisp demo without any
problems! Although ACL is the only CL implementation that I tested
Araneida with on Win32, Brian has been working on
ABCL,
CLISP and
LispWorks support, so those CL implementations might also work with
Araneida on Win32. The multi-implementation support is currently in the
Araneida CVS (Note: Araneida relies on two other packages -
net-telent-date and
split-sequence, but you can just download the regular versions
of these); however, Brian indicated that the multi-CL support will be included in Araneida 0.9 which is
tentatively planned for release in the next week or so (oops, looks
like it's just
been released today!).
Gosh, if only all my wishes were granted in such a timely manner! ;-)
