[Lispweb] Araneida

[Brian Mastenbrook]

I'm here too, but my time has been more spent on SBCL lately. In this 
case I've a fair amount of mixed feelings about hacking araneida: 
frankly I think the whole thing could use a rewrite from the bottom up 
with a documented protocol and "right" behavior in a number of these 
cases. I've had several false starts on this but my motivation is 
probably not high so long as araneida works. Unfortunately the end 
result is that araneida is nearly unmaintained, while worse solutions 
like mod_lisp and paserve are more actively maintained.

If anybody is interested in actually working on araneida please let me 
know. I love the concepts but there are some parts of the implementation 
that could use some work (URL matching for handlers is just a string 
prefix now, which is not very flexible; there's a hack in CVS to add a 
wild hostname-and-port functionality in the reverse proxy translator for 
those who want to respond to any host but it's terribly hackish). Also 
one of Dan's approaches when writing Araneida was to not depend on 
external libraries that he also didn't write, but in this modern age of 
asdf-install that's probably considerably less important.

Thoughts? It looks like people are actually using araneida, so maybe 
some discussion on how to bring it to the "next generation" is warranted.

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Brian Mastenbrook
brian at mastenbrook.net
http://www.iscblog.info/