On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:04, Damien Grassart wrote:
John Quigley wrote:
I think we're all on the same page that our first project should be setting up a collaboration server where we can develop a group website with Lisp on the back-end.
If the plan is to create a web site that encourages collaboration, why not set up something like CLiki? CLiki (http://www.cliki.net/ CLiki) runs on the Araneida web server (http://www.cliki.net/ araneida) so it fulfills the Lisp back-end requirement and I it would probably much quicker to get something up and running then custom solutions. Sorry if this has already been suggested, I'm new around here, but I thought I'd bring it up just in case.
Of course, the biggest problem I see with any of this is getting our hands on a host for the web server. IIRC, the person at the *default- chicago-lisp-name* meeting who volunteered to host the web server hasn't been active in this thread. This is probably all a moot point until we have some place to stick anything.
I definitely agree with you that CLiki would be a good idea. We could start with something very simple. John Quigley's presentation material could be the first entry. I would also vote for either Araneida or AllegroServe. I personally haven't used much of either, so I don't have a lot of first-hand experience. I did play with AllegroServe enough to fire an MMS http://tinyurl.com/yfchlm message at it and play with decoding the message. But it was more of a "Hello, world" encoded in WAP http://tinyurl.com/4lgjx. I know that at least one of the subscribers to chicago-lisp has used Araneida because he (Brian Mastenbrook) has made an entry about Araneida on cliki but he hasn't been active in this thread. Araneida doesn't seem to have any documentation at the common-lisp.net site. AllegroServe does at least have some documentation. Araneida kicks AllegroServe's butt in a GoogleFight, for perhaps the lamest possible metric of which gets used more.