HI-

The problem was that the perl script included with the
swish-e-2.1-dev-25-2002-02-25-win32.exe doesn't include the conditionals
for windows.
The swish.cgi in CVS works OK.


-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: Bill Moseley [mailto:moseley@hank.org] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Marz 2002 20:51
An: markus@braindump.ms; Multiple recipients of list
Betreff: Re: [SWISH-E] AW: Re: SWISH-E status on windows


At 02:14 AM 03/14/02 -0800, Markus Strickler wrote:
>I still don't get the swish.cgi to run.
>It uses alarm() which is unsupported at least in ActivePerl 5.6.

But it's not called.  Is perl still complaining?  I'm running 5.6.1.

> grep alarm swish.cgi
        alarm $timeout if $timeout && $^O !~ /Win32/i;
        alarm 0  unless $^O =~ /Win32/i;



>Also it openes a pipe with open( $fh, '-|' ); which doesn't work on 
>Windows either...

Again, from swish.cgi:

    my $fh = $^O =~ /Win32/i
             ? windows_fork( $conf, $self )
             : real_fork( $conf, $self );

>Concerning the "statbility" question.
>I meant stable as in stable for a production environment.

That's a tough question, and one that seems more important to managers
;)

If the stable version has a bug that has been fixed in the unstable
version, then which do you pick?  2.1 is so much better than 2.0.5 and
is in production in a number of places. 


Best option from my point of view, use CVS to get swish, and if you find
a bug fix it and submit a patch, or post it here and is should get fixed
reasonably quickly.  But then you will need a C compiler.

BTW -- if you learn anything about swish.cgi script on Windows, please
let me know.  Specifically about running an external program like swish.
I've ranted about this before, but I've spent a year posting questions
on Windows Perl and CGI lists asking how to safely run programs.  So far
I have not had a single answer.  I'd welcome new tips.


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Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org