Re: busybox + python questions

Thanks for the suggestions. They all involve learning another language, 
although I'm somewhat familiar with PHP. I think I'll also look at increasing 
the hardware requirements.

Ciao


On Thursday 10 August 2006 01:48, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:05 -0400, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> > > it's your system so only you know if you really need python
> >
> > I was hoping to do the web interface with python. I knew there was going
> > to be a penalty, I hadn't expected it to be so bad. I would like to stay
> > under 16MB for the root ramdisk, but it looks like it's damn near
> > impossible with python.
> >
> > Time to look for alternatives.
>
> Ruby on rails is like 10MB on my hardened embedded system.
>
> PHP with almost no use-flags turned on takes 3.6MB.
>
> Lua is even smaller. 700KB. There is a lua web framework called Kepler
> that should be pretty small. Its not in portage yet (and build scripts
> are ugly)
>
> Lua makes it also pretty good on the Computer Language Shootout:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/lua.php
>
> If you want to make it really small you can look at haserl. It's
> embedded shell.
> http://haserl.sourceforge.net
>
> --
> Natanael Copa

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Philippe

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