On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:51:48AM +0100, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
Takuya Murata wrote:
> The problem is set up. Surely the current dependency hell
> makes hard to host mimi-wikipedia, particularly on windows-
> based servers.
No, you got it all wrong.
It's not "dependency hell", it's "server-side programming".
We're supposed to use whatever we find convenient on server-side.
That's the paradigm on this side of network connection.
These dependencies aren't really that weird - Apache, PHP and MySQL
are available on all Unices (and Windows), and offered by most web
hosting providers.
If you want math, maybe LaTeX, GhostScript and OCaml are not that popular,
but you'll need first two in any case if you want to render math,
and OCaml files may be compiled to native codes, so you just
have to put binaries on server.
As for windows servers, it doesn't really matter.
They are rather small minority, and have so many problems
that supporting them is not really worth effort.
Just get some Unix.