[Info-vax] Purveyor

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-23, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 8:12:32?AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-08-22, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.... at telia.com> wrote: 
>> > 
>> > WASD is available (also for x86-64) and it is already up to the latest 
>> > standards.
>> Oops, I completely forgot about WASD when posting that reply. Sorry Mark. :-) 
>> 
>> So, there you go Bob, there is indeed a nice modern web server for VMS 
>> that is not a port from Unix and which you can use today instead of 
>> waiting for an apparently long-obsolete Purveyor to somehow be 
>> resurrected even though there's no longer any possible market for it. 
>> 
>> It appears the following is the WASD website: 
>> 
>> https://wasd.vsm.com.au/ 
>> 
>> and the site itself is running on the WASD web server.
>> Simon. 
>> 
>
> and what happens when Mark can't support purveyor anymore? Tomcat means apache unix garbage, and VSI needs their own webserver ... and purveyor
> would be a lot easier to maintain than apache. Look how far it is behind currently. You are not going to attract new customers that way ...

Huh ?  HUH ???? (and one more time) HUH ???!!!???

Bob, do you _even_ read or think before posting ?

Mark is working on WASD (not Purveyor).

You have already been told Tomcat is not the Apache webserver and they
are two very different products.

You have already been told Purveyor is massively out of date and it is
not viable to bring it forward to modern standards, especially given the
current alternatives available.

Who do you think would buy Purveyor and in sufficient quantities to make
porting viable when multiple alternatives exist ?

Why exactly does VSI need their own webserver ? That's not their primary
market and if for some weird reason they needed an alternative to Apache,
they are much more likely to port something like NGINX instead, which would
not need all the work doing to it that Purveyor does.

In your statement "Look how far it is behind currently.", what exactly are
you referring to (because I can't tell) ?

One more time: Purveyor is obsolete and multiple alternatives exist.
Pick one and use it instead, because Purveyor is not coming back, no
matter how much you might wish it would.

Simon.

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