[gopher] Motsognir v1.0 - rewritten, totally standalone, and with PHP support
Hi all,
I am happy to hereby announce the release of the latest version of my
gopher server - Motsognir v1.0.
This version brings a tremendous amount of architecture changes, due to
the fact that I rewrote it completely in ANSI C. I did this because I
wanted to make it extremely portable, to be able to run it on some
ultra-lightweight ARM server. It doesn't require an inetd-like
superserver anymore, which makes it much more 'plug & play'.
I also removed some features that weren't used by anybody (that I know
about), and replaced them with more practical ones.
Here is a short changelog:
v1.0 [24 Sep 2013]
- The whole code base has been rewritten from FreeBASIC to ANSI C,
- Moved to a standalone server architecture with its own listening
service (instead of relying on an inetd-like superserver),
- Moved default configuration from /etc/motsognir.cfg to
/etc/motsognir.conf,
- Added command line parameter --config to specify a configuration in
a custom location,
- Added a file listing directive to gophermaps, allowing to show a
dynamic list of files from within a gophermap,
- Added PHP support,
- Add a 'default gophermap' feature allowing to customize the look of
an entire server with a global gophermap.
- Dropped Windows support,
- Removed the authentication feature,
- Removed the 'gopherlinks files' feature,
- Removed the 'descript.ion metadata' feature.
The project is hosted on sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/motsognir
But it also has a gopher hole (hosted by itself, obviously!)
gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/projects/motsognir/
And for those of you who are running Linux and like to get 'ready to
use' packages, I prepared packages for a few Linux distros here:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/motsognir
cheers,
Mateusz
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