[Openmcl-devel] Portable AllegroServe

[Dave Cooper]

We have been using the quicklisp version of aserve (which I believe is
sourced from Sourceforge git) for years, and it's been working acceptably
for years for our purposes. There is recently a IPv6 issue which came up,
which causes some annoyances but I don't think is a show-stopper.  I do
need to circle back and confirm what all those issues were and to what
extent they are resolved in latest Quicklisp and/or CCL (as I recall the
main issues came into play in CCL 1.11 and not in CCL 1.10).

Portable aserve is crucial for its role in Gendl, and "switching to
hunchentoot" is not a short- or medium-term option for us.  So Genworks
would like to express its intention and willingness to support smooth
running of portable aserve with as many CL implementations a possible.

How we make good on that intention is a bit of a TBD right now, but I will
personally commit to spending some time with various versions of CCL and
aserve by some time next week, and report back with my understanding of
where things stand currently.  I may also advocate for moving the
repository to common-lisp.net and trying to breathe new life into a new
mailing list (the portableaserve Sourceforge discussion group has been
dead, dead, dead for some time now).













On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

> I’ve been using the QuickLisp version (1.2.31) in light production for
> years.  Never had a problem.
>
> On Feb 7, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Robert Cram <
> robert at robertcramconstruction.com> wrote:
>
> > I’m open to that idea.  I don’t have very much dependency on ASERVE -
> the port in my code might be a day or two.  But I wouldn’t want to exchange
> one set of aserve-related problems with a similarly sized set of
> hunchentoot problems.
> >
> > So of course I’d rather have someone say, “Sure, it’s easy, everyone
> knows that the authoritative portableaserve system is at X repository, in
> so and so version.
> >
> > Can one say that about hunchentoot?
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >> On Feb 7, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My advice would be to switch to Hunchentoot.
> >>
> >> On Feb 7, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Robert Cram <
> robert at robertcramconstruction.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Does there exist a commonly-accepted way to get a good copy of
> portable allegroserve, that works with CCL?
> >>>
> >>> This may be too much information, or irrelevant, but after operatiing
> for about a year with a good system, I ran into a bug in the CGI code, an
> incompatiility with the acl-compat layer.  I emptied out all the
> portableaserve tree and tried quicklisp:quickload :verbose “aserve”.  Oops
> - lots and lots of compile errors, including the same problem in the
> CGI/acl-compat stuff.
> >>>
> >>> A year ago was my first serious foray into Lisp. It was a tentative
> step at that point, and I didn’t record how I built my (mostly) working
> system.  I can revert my development system back to what I had before, and
> clean up the problems one by one, but I’d rather do it the right way - I
> have a system that’s approaching production.
> >>>
> >>> I apologize for asking here in the openmcl list, but I am having
> difficulty sorting out who’s who or what, out in the rest of the world.
> Obviously there’s some changing landscape in the
> git/subversion/sourceforge/everyone else world, that I don’t yet
> understand.  It’s not clear to me that there exists an central,
> authoritative voice, so I’m asking in the decentralized, trusted place.
> >>>
> >>> I would appreciate any pointers.
> >>>
> >>> - Bob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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My Best,

Dave Cooper
genworks.com, gendl.org
+1 248-330-2979
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