[Axiom-developer] Re: asq online

[root]

> Tim, that's pretty neat. Yes we can easily provide this as
> a search page on the Axiom wiki. The wiki uses Python and
> Zope instead of PHP but in any case this is fairly trivial
> to write in either environment.

it's trivial as is so rewrite it at will.

 
> For installation on a workstation however I think it would be
> MUCH better if this was done without PHP. Certainly having
> PHP as a prerequisite on Windows is a bit too "heavy". Since
> this is supposed to work with Axiom, I think a better choice
> would be a simple Lisp script. Camm provided a while back
> (maybe a year ago?) about 10 lines of Lisp code that implements
> a simple web server. This could be implemented in Axiom as a
> command such as:
> 
>   )browse )port 80 )start firefox
> 
> which would automatically start a web browser and run the web
> server script.

this would be very, very slick.
i'll have to try that.
do you happen to have a pointer?

t