Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-28 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi Markus, On 11 June 2013 17:05, Markus Teich wrote: > is there a particular reason for using (f)cgi scripts to serve a purely > static website? > Wouldn't plain html suck less? As the name swerc indicates, the s not only stands for "simple", but is also intended to stand for "static" -- the la

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread hiro
>>On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren/ > > And yes, this is *also* valid for eMail. Did you try to give an example of how not to quote? I don't get it.

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andrew Gwozdziewycz dixit: >But how often does stuff actually get updated? You can simply pregenerate >all the content and serve it... For a site with 50 pages, that's nothing. FWIW, the MirBSD website is kept in CVS and generated with some (BSD) make and mksh scripts, then rsync’d to a webserver

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread hiro
get a job. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > alright if we are dreaming and scheming... > > Why not have static pages which are all within a git repository? When > there is a change pushed to the server, a git hook could run the > re-generate script to recreate the static

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Markus Teich
http://shebang.ws/fugitive-readme.html seems to do exacty that. It might be worth looking into. --Markus Am 2013-06-11 18:45, schrieb Calvin Morrison: alright if we are dreaming and scheming... Why not have static pages which are all within a git repository? When there is a change pushed to t

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Calvin Morrison
alright if we are dreaming and scheming... Why not have static pages which are all within a git repository? When there is a change pushed to the server, a git hook could run the re-generate script to recreate the static files in the appropriate directories with the headers and such. Calvin On

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:30:36 +0200 Markus Teich wrote: > is there a particular reason for using (f)cgi scripts to serve a purely > static website? > Wouldn't plain html suck less? If you volunteer to do implement this, contact me. For now suckless.org is still using the werc remnan

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread hiro
werc itself doesn't tell anyone to use fastcgi. stupid suckless.

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread hiro
i don't know anything about fastcgi or "suckless", I thought you just asked why we use any CGI at all.

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Calvin Morrison
_who gives a shit_ For a site with 50 pages, fcgi is nothing. On 11 June 2013 11:59, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > But how often does stuff actually get updated? You can simply pregenerate > all the content and serve it... For a site with 50 pages, that's nothing. > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
I really don't give a shit. The real question is why is FastCGI "suckless" approved. It's a pretty shitty and complicated protocol for what it does, especially when compared to SCGI. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > _who gives a shit_ > > For a site with 50 pages, fcgi

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
But how often does stuff actually get updated? You can simply pregenerate all the content and serve it... For a site with 50 pages, that's nothing. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > For example because people didn't want to worry about having to update > stuff th

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread hiro
For example because people didn't want to worry about having to update stuff that gets included on multiple pages.

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Andrew Hills
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:11:03 -0400 Jacob Todd wrote: > No, not having a website would suck less. Not having a website would suck more... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Jacob Todd
No, not having a website would suck less.

[dev] (s)werc and the suckless.org homepage

2013-06-11 Thread Markus Teich
Heyho, is there a particular reason for using (f)cgi scripts to serve a purely static website? Wouldn't plain html suck less? --Markus