Re: Use cases question

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:50:14 -0600
"Dan Muey" <dmuey-Gv/[email protected]> wrote:
> I've used markive but it's been a while since I played with moto.
> I'm looking into a bit more and have a few uses case questions.
> 1)If I remember right after you install it you can have a .moto file
> that is plaiin text and it gets interpreted each time it's run
> correct?

Yes.

>  If I want to compile one or more .moto files I can folow the
> instructions at http://projectmoto.org/usecases.moto
> My questions are:
> On number 1 it says:
> Take the compiled website (mod_sitename.so) and install it in the
> libexec directory of your apache installation. Restart apache...
> 2) So if I move the .so file to the proper directory it will just
> work, withotu modifying httpd.conf ??

You have to enable Moto in httpd.con of course. :)

> On number 2 it says:
> Take the compiled application and distribute it online or burned on a
> cd without giving away the source code. Users, customers, clients will
> not even need moto or any other third party 'runtime' environment to
> run it.
> 3) So how would I execute it as a program?

You can't. From what I remember this functionality is planned, but for
now nonexistent.

> 4) The mmc comands looked identical pretty much, so how does it know
> if I want a mod_*****.so for apache or just a plain standalone prog?
> (***** instead of mod_*****.so)

For now you can only create modules for Apache 1.3 (haven't looked into
CVS lately though) and interpret .moto files in it.

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