June 5, 1998
6:46 p.m.
"JV" == John Viega <viega@list.org> writes:
JV> I was just thinking that it's a little much to require people
JV> to go in and change their httpd configuration files.
JV> Something we could do for the next release would be to provide
JV> a single C binary, and tell people, "Put this in your system
JV> cgi-bin directory". Then mailman URLS would become:
JV> http://www.blah.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
JV> I think while the URL may get a little bigger, it has the
JV> advantage of being a lot less error-prone to install.Actually, Ken and I have talked about trying to *shorten* the URL, but we haven't come up with anything that'll work. It's a pain-tradeoff: how much pain do you put the installer through so that the larger number of users go through less pain (less typing) to get to the relevent pages?
One thing you *could* do is install the `listinfo' and other wrapper binaries into cgi-bin, but call them mm_listinfo. I'm not crazy about that idea, and I don't think the mods to httpd conf files are all that daunting right now. I could be wrong though.
-Barry