[Ur] mod_fcgid and Ur/Web

[Adam Chlipala]

Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> Excerpts from Adam Chlipala's message of Sun May 06 12:43:43 -0400 2012:
>> And where will the static files go?  You want the rule to be that some
>> URI prefixes are for static files, and everything else belongs to the app?
> That works. Alternatively, you can setup a rule where Apache serves up
> a path if a corresponding file exists on the filesystem, and doesn't
> otherwise.

I like the idea of applications getting their own prefixes of the URI 
space, but perhaps I'm fighting against the tide here.  I'll wait and 
see if anyone else complains. :)

> You might want to add a note in the -protocol fastcgi section of the 
> manual, because I only discovered the prefix directive when I went to 
> read about static. 

Done.  (I did suggest it on the mailing list in response to your initial 
question. ;])

>> There are also the wishlist
>> items about easier deployment including static files, and I'd still love
>> to read some suggestions on that subject.  As far as I understand,
>> Ur/Web isn't any worse off there than mainstream frameworks, and it
>> seems plausible to me that some deployment system can be built as an
>> external tool.  For instance, I use Autoconf for that purpose in one
>> closed-source project, where a .ur file is written containing the needed
>> information on URL generation.
> I thought you might suggest something like that. :-)  My
> perspective on this issue has always been something like
> autoconf is worth it when you have to deal with the arcana
> of compiling C programs on a variety of different platforms,
> and *so not worth it* if all you need to do is string interpolation.

I'm not trying to argue that Autoconf is the best tool for this job.  
Instead, it's more like I'm trying to say that even such a basic, clunky 
tool gets the job done, and so it ought to be possible to build a nicer 
tool with a standard deployment format, probably even such that the tool 
easily supports multiple programming languages.  Is anything like that 
out there now?