Re: mod_octave?

[Gavin Jin]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for replying my email.

If not a stand alone mod_octave, how about something that works with
mod_* and frees the web server from loading the octave interpreter
every time a new octave task needs to be evaluated?

Can any of the suggestions you mentioned do that?


On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Andy Adler wrote:

> What would you like mod_octave to do?
>
> Octave has no implentation of CGI handling modules,
> to you'd have to do all the painful parsing yourself.
>
> Perhaps you may want to look at using
> mod_perl, with Inline::Octave?
>
> or mod_tcl and Paul Kienzle's octave/tcl bindings?
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Gavin Jin wrote:
>
> > I browsed through some mailing list  archives  about running octave
> > over the web,
> > and there were two major roadblocks:
> >
> > 1. security
> > 2. performance.
> >
> > The second issue can be addressed if octave becomes a apache module 
> > and
> > the performance can be greatly improved especially with the octave
> > executable that is built with fast libraries like atlas.
> >
> > Mod_octave doesn't have anything to do with being
> > secure or not, but for people who only want to offer some
> > web applications with their own scripts, it's not a concern.
> >
> > Has anyone tried that. I don't know much about apache module,
> > but I just installed mod_ruby on my powerMac and I will surely
> > like to use octave for web applications.



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