[Mailman-Developers] How to creating new cgi-bin scripts

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:20, Scott C. Villinski wrote:
> I've looked (in the places that I think I should) to find an answer.  On 
> my Mailman 2.1.3 server, I want to create a copy of the roster.py file 
> but instead have it return an XML document.  I copied the roster.py file 
> to: xml-roster.py (in $prefix/Mailman/Cgi).  What do I need to do to 
> make it compile and end up in the $prefix/cgi-bin directory?  I 
> restarted mailman on my server.  Are the scripts in the cgi-bin 
> directory hardcoded somehow?  Any pointers would be great.  Also if this 
>   isn't the right list, let me know.  I did post to the mailman-users 
> list, but got no bites.

You need to add 'xml-roster' to the CGI_PROGS variable in
src/Makefile.in.  This is because Mailman builds some C wrappers around
the Python cgi scripts (ostensibly for improved security).

-Barry